Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by RightTail on Friday August 28, 2020 @05:49PM (#24310424)

Maybe Epic will have some breakthroughs in making Fortnite browser based.

Not sure what would be needed to accomplish this.

Maybe better WebGL?

That would be amazing to help kids discover that the internet is much larger than apps.

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by ThatPlayer on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:11PM (#24311459)

This doesn't completely work because of all the missing features that Apple's iOS Safari does not implement. And you cannot even get a different browser (engine), because of Apple's App Store rules.

Off the top of my head, iOS Safari doesn't support notifications or (at least on iPhone) fullscreen API. Surprisingly there is controller support

https://caniuse.com/#feat=fullscreen

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by RightTail on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:33PM (#24317272)

So this couldn't be done in a different browser to the best of your knowledge?

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by ThatPlayer on Saturday August 29, 2020 @05:23PM (#24319542)

It could be done in a different browser that supports these features, of course. But on iOS, there is no other browser, and Apple prevent any other browser from being put onto the App Store. Chrome and Firefox on iOS is just a skin around iOS Safari with bookmark syncing features. They have no ability to implement these features on iOS.

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Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account by RightTail on Saturday August 29, 2020 @07:51PM (#24320232)

You sure? There seem to be a few others such as Dolphin, iCab etc.

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