Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by dmitriid on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:31AM (#31906396)

Current theoretical way of web standards is: a standard can only become a standard if there are two independent implementations of it.

This somewhat prevents browsers from implementing fully proprietary tech that canät be replicated by anyone else. It does lead to problems like WebSQL being scrapped (the idea was to basically run sqlite in the browser, Mozilla said they donät want to reverse-engineer sqlite behaviour for an independent implementation, the idea was scrapped).

However, with Google dominance we see more and more things appearing in Chrome only and based on Chrome's own goals, and then advertised as standards.

There's an ideal state somewhere, but I don't know how we could reach it.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by jpgvm on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @08:21AM (#31906740)

Yeah I think it's a difference in philosophy somewhat. PostgreSQL and Linux aren't standards, they are just shared infrastructure.

If Chromium was to become the same thing we could have just had WebSQL assuming maintainers agreed it was worth landing and maintaining.

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