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Re:Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16... by freediver on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:04PM (#32281755)
You mean everything is WebKit underneath. Safari and Chrome on iOS are very different browsers.
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Re:Tell HN: Apple Pay works in non-Safari browsers in iOS 16... by vinay427 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:08AM (#32285585)
No, I believe they meant Safari underneath, which is often used as shorthand for the specific rendering engine based on WebKit that powers Safari on iOS and comes with its own quirks. Chrome does not use the same engine on any other platform as it has deviated significantly.

The section on “Apple’s Open Source Claim” in this blog post [1] goes into a lot more detail on the relationship between Safari, WebKit, and the Chrome/Chromium rendering engine.

[1] https://infrequently.org/2021/08/webkit-ios-deep-dive/

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