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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by threeseed on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:09PM (#21487879)
Safari doesn't use private APIs. WebKit does.

And WebKit is a fundamental OSX library used for many purposes.

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by saagarjha on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:07PM (#21488760)
Safari totally uses private APIs, just not for web rendering.
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by neop1x on Sunday November 10, 2019 @08:56AM (#21497951)
Also every "browser" on iOS has to be based on their webkit. So there is only a single browser implementation. And worse even, they purposely prevent royalty-free (WP9, AV1) codec support (they receive money from HEVC licensing fees), among other things. I remember days where they didn't even support file uploads.
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by st3fan on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:52PM (#21488234)
Yeah sure technically correct. But both ship with macOS and both are built by the same trillion dollar company who owns the whole ecosystem.
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by plorkyeran on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:45PM (#21488604)
Electron could in theory use WebKit as well, and the main reason it doesn't is because Google decided to fork WebKit.
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by st3fan on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:18PM (#21489113)
I don’t think it actually can because WebKit on macOS has been replaced by WKWebView which has a severely limited API surface that without doubt is way too shallow for Electron.
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