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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by throwGuardian on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:11PM (#21560067)
This response literally proves fanboys and employees will offer circuitous logic to substantiate Apple. iOS Safari W3C non-compliance is well known, a little googling will lay out the (intentionally) missing features.

You go to lengths to defend Apple, but do not have the guts to let the consumer pick a Google/Mozilla alternative engine. What is Apple so scared of, if not a level playing field.

This is the same company that retroactively modified it's store policies to substantiate booting steam off the app store. Courage in the face of competition, not!!

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by Roboprog on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:32PM (#21560458)
I was a bit surprised to learn a year or two ago that the browser makers have pretty much divorced W3C:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHATWG

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by alwillis on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:39PM (#21560209)
>iOS Safari W3C non-compliance is well known, a little googling will lay out the (intentionally) missing features.

The illogic here is a little scary: Firefox and Safari on iOS basically have the same level of web standards compliance according to html5test.com, yet one is intentionally not implementing features?

No fanboyism; just the facts.

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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by detaro on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:44PM (#21560237)
It's not that surprisingly that the one making the decisions about the browser engine is blamed, not the one forced to use the browser engine instead of their own, is it?
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by alwillis on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:46PM (#21560533)
To be clear, the html5test.com numbers for Firefox are for Firefox on Android.
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by brlewis on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:44AM (#21564220)
Quote:

  YOUR BROWSER SCORES
         491
  OUT OF 555 POINTS
  You are using Firefox Mobile 68.0 on Android 8.1.0
Not 468.
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Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web by alwillis on Monday November 18, 2019 @09:52AM (#21564709)
The numbers I quoted were from Firefox 48, not 68.
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