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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by ducaale on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:06PM (#23512740)
Is Safari becoming the new Internet Explorer?
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by stock_toaster on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:42PM (#23513026)
Nah, pretty sure Chrome is. I'm apparently not alone[1][2][3] in believing so.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-onl...

[2]: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3199425/top-web-browse...

[3]: https://erik.itland.no/chrome-is-the-new-internet-explorer-4...

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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by lern_too_spel on Saturday June 13, 2020 @08:29PM (#23514074)
GP is comparing it to IE6 in terms of being behind other browsers in implementing features, not in terms of publishers only checking that their pages render correctly in that browser.
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by Flow on Saturday June 20, 2020 @02:31PM (#23585721)
IE was both the browser that were first with features and had lots of features the others didn't have, and the browser that lagged with new features.
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by londons_explore on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:33PM (#23512945)
It has been for a long time... It's opensource even, but they seem to ignore patches
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by saagarjha on Saturday June 13, 2020 @05:41PM (#23513011)
(To be pedantic: Safari is closed source, the WebKit that ships with Safari is mostly open source.)
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by Wowfunhappy on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:04PM (#23514254)
How different is this than Google Chrome being closed vs Chromium being open? Does Safari have more substantial closed-source components?
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by saagarjha on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:09PM (#23514283)
Chromium basically ships with a usable, “de-Googled” browser in tree doesn’t it? WebKit has what you might call a demo. Look up MiniBrowser to see what I mean. It’s a web view and three buttons, basically.
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by Wowfunhappy on Saturday June 13, 2020 @09:45PM (#23514450)
What about the Webkit Nightly builds though? Those basically seem to be Safari.
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by Wowfunhappy on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:48AM (#23517292)
...oh, huh, did something change in the past few years? I just checked, and the nightly builds do not download a full, usable app.

I could have sworn they used to though. You’d get an app called “Webkit”, but it functioned just like Safari for all intents and purposes.

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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by sanxiyn on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:08AM (#23515046)
Yes, Safari has more substantial closed source components. WebKit is comparable to Blink, not Chromium.
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Re:Rav1e, an AV1 encoder written in Rust and assembly by untog on Saturday June 13, 2020 @11:05PM (#23514766)
Primarily because of mobile. You can download a nightly build of Safari but you can’t install one on your phone.
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