How are you supposed to let people decide if the only choice is WebKit? Seems rather counterintuitive
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Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit
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Alright, point me to *one* site that only works on Chrome and not on Firefox/Safari (and I don't mean "this button looks off" kinda stuff)
Duda.co during Black Friday week could only be used on Chrome as their promo animation prevented all other browsers from using the login page. I informed them and their official answer was "use Chrome or wait till the Black Friday sale is over"
Since that one was "fixed" here's an ongoing example
cPanel, when logging in via Safari on iPad the site loops complaining that "the IP address" changed and have tried all troubleshooting steps available. on macOS the login times out more often than not. Chrome never has an issue logging in on cPanel.
Huh? I want Apple not to force a single engine so that we have choices.
While it sounds like a good idea, I still prefer a single web layout engine for everything. Reason: you don't want multiple web layout engines on the iPhone, especially the potential for hogging critical local storage.
The problem is that if Safari loses it iOS beachhead, than chances are that all of our choices will be Chrome. I'm not in favor of giving Google yet another monopoly.
but Safari is not on windows any more so apple needs to really have be on more systems.
Not sure how that would help. Safari was on Windows and had very little share. In my opinion, Windows browsing will always be dominated by whatever corporations decide to target. It used to be IE. Now it's Chrome.
It would make Safari an option in more markets. Right now between iOS and macOS Safari is available to about 23% of all devices worldwide. Bringing it to Windows would make Safari available to over 52% of devices worldwide. If they went one step further and made it for Android it would be available to over 96% of devices.
It's probably a long shot that they'd bring Safari to Windows and a far longer shot they'd bring it to Android. Part of the selling point in Safari is features like Apple Pay that relies on OS and hardware.
It was a rhetorical question, that won't happen. If Apple drops WebKit it's for user adoption dropping, unless they step up their browser game that is.
I don't care so long as I'm not forced in any way to use something other than WebKit.