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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by threeseed on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:18PM (#21487948)
This comment makes no sense to me.

How are Firefox and Chrome not competitive given that Safari isn't the overwhelmingly dominant browser ?

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by st3fan on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:42PM (#21488152)
They are now because they both use those APIs. You can read about the impact of this specific one here:

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

Before using those private APIs, with no other options to reach the same performance as Safari, both Chrome and Firefox were in a completely different league.

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by threeseed on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:03PM (#21488725)
It is ridiculous to say that Chrome/Firefox are only popular now because they use private APIs.

Your own article says that Firefox only recently started using them.

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by jolux on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:26PM (#21488483)
CALayer and IOSurface are not private...
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by Null-Set on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:03PM (#21488729)
CALayerHost and CAContext were listed in the offending apis in this rejection of an electron app https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by kalleboo on Friday November 08, 2019 @11:06PM (#21489520)
Firefox does not use CALayerHost. It uses the public IOSurface and CALayer.contents APIs.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/11/04/electron-apps-rejected-fr...

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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by jolux on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:20PM (#21488829)
Are those mentioned in the Mozilla post?
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by yoz-y on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:33PM (#21488076)
“On macOS” is the important part. Safari is by far the most battery friendly browser there and quite possibly has significant market share too. Mozilla has recently managed to reduce their consumption significantly using these APIs: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...
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