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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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