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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by fingerlocks on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:02PM (#26835583)
This is a technical detail most people don’t care about. You still get all the competing browsers with all their specific features on iOS, regardless of the rendering engine.
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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by gorbypark on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:06PM (#26836481)
All non-Safari browsers on iOS use the Safari engine underneath, which doesn't currently support WebRTC. It's a pretty huge blocker for a lot of sites (video conferencing, etc) to have to throw up a "Please use Safari" banner for iOS users using anything other than Safari.
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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by heavyset_go on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:08PM (#26837220)
It also doesn't support Web APIs that Chrome and Firefox have supported for 8+ years now.
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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by cma on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:56PM (#26836328)
I believe due to webkit no browsers are allowed to do full screen with multitouch. It is possible this only affects Safari and Chrome and isn't a webkit limitation, I haven't tested Firefox.
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