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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by freediver on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:47PM (#37784692)
Can you give an example of such privileges?
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by leodriesch on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:50PM (#37784716)
Support for web extensions as an example (Safari extensions)
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by lhnz on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:01PM (#37784844)
Doesn't Kagi for iOS support web extensions already?
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by elashri on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:14PM (#37784950)
Not yet. The support is very limited.
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by heavyset_go on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:16PM (#37784964)
Safari's rendering and JavaScript engines are the only ones allowed to run on, or be distributed to, iOS.
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by freediver on Thursday October 05, 2023 @06:40PM (#37785163)
That is technically WebKit, which is open source.
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Re:Vivaldi Takes a Bite Out of the Apple: Introducing Vivald... by heavyset_go on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:54PM (#37785708)
Try to bundle your own WebKit with an app and see what happens.
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