New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5

Re:New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5 by scarface74 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:32AM (#31410302)

The game studios like in app purchasing where you get to buy loot boxes and other zero marginal cost goods without thinking about it.

We have a control in the experiment - we have an “open ecosystem” in Android and supposedly a much better browser - yet and still, game developers still choose to give Google the same 30% cut as Apple. Maybe it’s not because Apple is holding the web back?

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Re:New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5 by mtomweb on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:41PM (#31419012)

I think it's one of those things, that if you're not using Safari to develop Web Apps it's very hard to see what the problems are from the outside.

If you get some time we've written a lot of detail about it here: https://open-web-advocacy.org/walled-gardens-report/

Personally I hate loot boxes etc, It's an awful business model.

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Re:New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5 by scarface74 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:01PM (#31428692)

I’m not claiming or not claiming that Safari is best at supporting “web standards”. I’m simply saying that if Apple supported every web standard in the world, the revenue generating apps would still be native.

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Re:New WebKit Features in Safari 15.5 by etchalon on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @09:34PM (#31429693)

Quiet, or you'll logic everyone out of their sincerely held conspiracy theories.

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