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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by fpoling on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:30PM (#32986495)
Apple only forbids alternative rendering engines, one can still use own networking stack. This alone allows to differentiate a browser a lot especially regarding ad blocking.
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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by babypuncher on Monday September 26, 2022 @02:32PM (#32986520)
The vast majority of what makes a browser is the HTML/CSS rendering and JavaScript interpreter. Everything else is pretty much just glue to make it all work.
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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by fpoling on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:12PM (#32987027)
From an end-user point of view rendering engines are mostly indistinguishable. On the other hand the whole UI and speed of loading of pages are very much noticeable and this a developer can directly control.

Note I agree that what Apple does is bad, but claiming that it prevents differentiation where it matters is simply not true.

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