Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by hutzlibu on Thursday May 06, 2021 @06:10AM
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"I want app developers to jump through more hoops than people making websites"
It might be news to you, but webtechnologies have evolved a bit, from displaying static documents. Have you heard of wasm for example? Quite interesting, what you can do with that. And a bit more sophisticated, than scratching together some html markup.
But I very much agree, though, that I also don't want any website to have deeper access to my hardware, without explicit consent from myself.
"Until there’s a proper open standard for “web technology” apps that are opt-in and user initiated, and clearly separated (visually and technically) from web pages (which are documents) I feel like Apple are on my side here."
So yes, there is more work needed in that area to make that distinction more clear to the users.
But I don't see Apple is pushing in that direction. Rather the opposite. Pushing into their walled garden, they control. Otherwise they would be very free and able to polish their PWA permission dialogs, to protect their users, no?
It might be news to you, but webtechnologies have evolved a bit, from displaying static documents. Have you heard of wasm for example? Quite interesting, what you can do with that. And a bit more sophisticated, than scratching together some html markup.
But I very much agree, though, that I also don't want any website to have deeper access to my hardware, without explicit consent from myself.
"Until there’s a proper open standard for “web technology” apps that are opt-in and user initiated, and clearly separated (visually and technically) from web pages (which are documents) I feel like Apple are on my side here."
So yes, there is more work needed in that area to make that distinction more clear to the users.
But I don't see Apple is pushing in that direction. Rather the opposite. Pushing into their walled garden, they control. Otherwise they would be very free and able to polish their PWA permission dialogs, to protect their users, no?
What is hindering them?