It's great to see real (3D) Offscreen Canvas slated for Safari 17 after the absolute clusterfuck that was the 16.4 mess, but it's we shouldn't over-index on gratitude.

Cowboy-catchup is the flip side of the same immature software development practices that have left many sites dealing with show-stopping bugs for months, over and over and over, across the past decade.

A faster ship cycle is good, but competition is the real fix. The #AppleBrowserBan can't be allowed to continue.

That said, lifting the #AppleBrowserBan would make the whole ecosystem better; I shouldn't need to hope stability improves because there's only one browser available.

Just putting this out there...
https://open-web-advocacy.org/get-involved/
#AppleBrowserBan #OpenWeb

Update everything. Especially iOS and iPad OS because thanks to the #AppleBrowserBan, we’re all held hostage on WebKit https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/13/ios-16-3-1-macos-ventura-13-2-1-vulnerability-fix/

Heh. This is the first time (in recent history, at least?) that Ars is reporting on the #AppleBrowserBan. Good!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/google-and-mozilla-are-working-on-ios-browsers-that-break-current-app-store-rules/

RT @OpenWebAdvocacy
Both @mozilla and @Apple have just published their views on the #AppleBrowserBan in response to the UKs investigation into mobile browsers.

Mozilla wishes to be allowed to port Firefox with Gecko to iOS.

Apple firmly refuses to remove the WebKit restriction.

Both @mozilla and @apple have just published their views on the #AppleBrowserBan in response to the UKs investigation into mobile browsers.

Mozilla wishes to be allowed to port Firefox with Gecko to iOS.

Apple firmly refuses to remove the WebKit restriction.

Mozilla is working on their iOS version of Gecko as well! 🚀

Third time's a Charm? *

* Way back in the day, Mozilla attempted to get their browser on iOS. Apple rejected it. Moz considered their engine so important that they refused to do a WebKit-version until years later.

Mozilla had another go at porting Gecko in 2016-ish or so, but not sure if that ever reached an app store reviewer...

#AppleBrowserBan

👉 @owa Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂

https://mastodon.social/@owa/109822909165475786

This is huge. Legislators can force Apple to allow 3rd-party browser engines on iOS all they want, but we need actual browser vendors to build and release those browsers. Looks like Google is the 1st one to do it!

#AppleBrowserBan

👉 OWA: Google is working on bringing Chromium to iOS 🥂

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/googles_chromium_ios/ https://mastodon.social/@owa/109803428735082659

RT @RGadellaa
Funny how Safari was able to go from lagging years behind Chrome and (non-profit-funded) Firefox to "they might actually catch up some day" in 2 years - the same 2 years regulators started looking into the #AppleBrowserBan

https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/triumph-of-safari/

I check in with @slightlyoff, @tomayac and the @owa about several ongoing web tech issues: #React performance, #pwas and the #AppleBrowserBan https://thenewstack.io/2023-web-tech-check-in-react-performance-pwas-ios-browsers/

I'm doing a post for The New Stack checking in on a few web standards issues from last year — #AppleBrowserBan, #PWA and browser support, #React and are devs actually moving away from it?. Let me know if anyone has any tips or potential sources to hit up. #WebStandards

Which browser do you use on #iOS?
#AppleBrowserBan

Follow @owa for updates on Apple's hostility towards the Web.

RT @brucel@twitter.com

Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23507766/apple-app-store-eu-dma-third-party-sideloading - let's see; this is "reportedly", and nothing about PWA-capable 3rd party browser engines on iThings. But it's the sweet smell of #appleBrowserBan change blowing in the wind.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/brucel/status/1602953925988073472

I'm 🤞 that the #AppleBrowserBan finally ends.
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RT @dannymoerkerke
Don't expect Apple to rush it and there will probably be lots of pitfalls but again this is HUGE

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/14/apple-considering-non-webkit-iphone-browsers/
https://twitter.com/dannymoerkerke/status/1603289264359444480

ICYMI, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is pushing into the effects of the #applebrowserban and Android's shenanigans around browser choice, and it's *extremely* good news:

https://theplatformlaw.blog/2022/11/28/the-cmas-investigation-of-competition-restrictions-regarding-browsers/

/cc @owa

@tobie It's not impossible, just that web apps on the iPad tend to be, well, less good than any other device (due to the #AppleBrowserBan )

Also if a company does a great job on the web, they have far less incentive to build a native app (which would be helpful on the iPad)

Even down under its pretty obvious that engine choice in iOS is important.

RT @OpenWebAdvocacy@twitter.com

The Australian 🇦🇺 Regulator (@acccgovau@twitter.com) in their latest report came out against the #AppleBrowserBan and with support for Web Apps!

Latest from the OWA blog:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/australia-accc-nov-22/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1597893700172271619

RT @OpenWebAdvocacy@twitter.com

The Australian 🇦🇺 Regulator (@acccgovau@twitter.com) in their latest report came out against the #AppleBrowserBan and with support for Web Apps!

Latest from the OWA blog:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/australia-accc-nov-22/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/OpenWebAdvocacy/status/1597893700172271619

The Australian 🇦🇺 Regulator (@acccgovau) in their latest report came out against the #AppleBrowserBan and with support for Web Apps!

Latest from the OWA blog:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/australia-accc-nov-22/