Safari is the new IE

Re:Safari is the new IE by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:31AM (#9805463)

Not quite my area of expertise, but I believe that browsers on Android also tend to use the core Android browser components though they can dress them up slightly differently.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by sangnoir on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:20AM (#9805880)

> ...I believe that browsers on Android also tend to use...

The word 'also' doesn't belong here. Browsers on iOS don't tend to use core iOS components (WebView) : they are forced to. Your statement really isn't a counter point.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by Someone1234 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:10AM (#9805816)

Browsers on Android are not required to use Android's built in WebViews. And several alternative browser engines are offered by the platform[0].

Android has no specific restrictions in place. Although it is the path of least resistance to use the built in WebView, since you now don't need to deploy your own.

[0] Including: Blink (Amazon Silk, Chrome, Opera), WebKit (BlackBerry, Dolphin, et al), Gecko (Firefox, Minimo), NetFront (Blazer). At the moment WebKit derivatives seem to be most popular, but several browsers re-build it from the source rather than just using Android's WebKit components.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:22PM (#9806394)

Thanks, as I said, NMAOE and I was mostly reflecting observations based on some dated Android builds.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by glogla on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:10AM (#9805818)

Some browsers do, but Firefox Mobile uses it's own core.

That makes it possible to use extensions like ublock, for much better browsing experience than any browser without ad blocker can provide.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by lorenzhs on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:08AM (#9805795)

They can, but they don't have to. Mozilla ships a Gecko engine in Firefox for Android.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by mcintyre1994 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:53AM (#9806169)

They might tend to, but Firefox for example is the real thing on Android.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:23PM (#9806399)

Ah, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.

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