Firefox released four patches for v136 in quick succession (March 11th, 18th, 25th, and 27th), which included at least one security fix.
Meanwhile, iOS Safari (and - thanks to the #AppleBrowserBan - every browser on iOS) requires full OS updates to fix security issues, which often take weeks (if not a month or more) to ship to users.
Appleのブラウザエンジンの規制は本当に良くない #AppleBrowserBan
@brucelawson sitting here in #38C3 and thinking about you. Maybe this talk helps ... #AppleBrowserBan
Hey #38C3,
please support #AppleBrowserBan
The Problem:
Apple has been ignoring web standards for years. They only allow one browser engine—WebKit—on iOS. This regulation blocks features essential for developing browser-native web apps.
Learn more and join the advocacy:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/
CMA Provisional Report on mobile browsers.
I read the 600 page provisional report from the UK competition regulator's two year market investigation into mobile browsers and the #AppleBrowserBan so you don't have to: https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/cma-provisional-report-mobile-browsers/
Adobe's `usePreventScroll()` hook takes ~8 lines of code to prevent scroll on every browser - except for iOS Safari - that one takes 163 lines, many of which are comments trying to explain what the f*ck is happening.
But can it run a 3rd-party browser?
Also, Nilay when he learns that web apps can do bluetooth:
"It just feels like, Tim cook will be standing there, going like You shall not pass!".
Nilay is exactly 100% right about that.
Web Bluetooth works on pretty much every OS on every platform (as long as it can run a browser that supports it). In other words: This does not work on iOS.
Thanks, Tim Cook. #AppleBrowserBan
Snippet: https://pca.st/zc69u60j?t=5456,5470
@bramus @owa Apple's starvation of the Safari/WebKit team hasn't just meant that important features like scroll-linked animations remain AWOL for many years, but that the show-stopping bugs make "available" features a perpetual mine field:
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
This is a rolling catastrophe because of the #AppleBrowserBan
If FruitCo were *explicitly* trying to make the web irrelevant, what would it do differently? I struggle to come up with a better strategy.
A deep and important piece by @rgadellaa that documents the gobsmacking history of showstopping bugs on iOS Safari:
https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
Normally, a browser sucking would be a problem just for that vendor, who would lose share. But because of the #applebrowserban, Apple has nothing to fear. Instead, Apple continually breaks essential functionality it would *never* break for native developers.
The result? A web that can't compete, even when Apple *finally* gets around to adding features.
@parismarx I'd guess Patreon feels the need for an app because of a combination of the #AppleBrowserBan (https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-browser-ban/) and severe limitations on web apps in Safari (https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/).
Breaking 🚨: UK regulator considering significant remedies inc #AppleBrowserBan, Choice Screens, Defaults, Hotseat, and In-App Browsers!
Sorry for the 🐦 link, but this thread asks some excellent questions.
Ugh, it didn't take long for Gruber to use the "hidden Chrome extension"-thing to advocate for the iOS Safari browser monopoly, did it?
Funny thing is, he's basically saying "you should not use Chrome" - which implies you have a choice. You can switch to Firefox or Safari.
But what if I don't like something about WebKit (like, how it lags behind other browser engines)?
I have to buy an Android phone??
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/07/12/google-chrome-system-monitoring
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, Browser and Cloud Gaming Market Investigation has just released their progress report and discusses in depth the #AppleBrowserBan.
Read all about it:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/uk-cma-browser-cloud-gaming-progress-report/
[en] Japan: Apple can no longer hinder competition by banning browsers
According to Open Web Advocacy OWA: "Japan’s parliament passed into law a bill to promote fair competition on smartphone operating systems, similar to the EU’s Digital Markets Act and the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-ends-the-apple-browser-ban/
#applebrowserban #browser #competition #smartphone #owa #openweb #dsa #dmccb #japan
The iPad should be able to run other browser engines (and not just in the EU).
Seriously, that would unlock a whole lot more (cough competition cough) than just being able to carry it around.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/15/24177306/apple-foldable-phone-ipados-18
Japan ends the #AppleBrowserBan - Open Web Advocacy https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-ends-the-apple-browser-ban/
The #AppleBrowserBan has ended in Japan! 🇯🇵🎉🍾
We'd like to say a huge thank-you to the HDMC and the JFTC for helping ensure browsers can compete fairly, and so web apps can contest the gatekeeper's native app ecosystems.
OWA is looking forward to helping contribute towards monitoring compliance and helping provide information for effective enforcement.
Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/japan-ends-the-apple-browser-ban/
New iPads! Faster cpus! They still can't run the full Chrome, Firefox!
#AppleBrowserBan
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151030/apple-ipad-let-loose-event-live-blog-news-updates
