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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by addicted on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:12PM (#9827059)
Preventing other rendering engines is Apple trying to leverage the strength of its iOS platform to help control the future of the internet. Nothing more, nothing less.

I can understand their wanting to have some say on what may be the sole future platform, but lets not pretend it's for some altruistic reason.

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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by karlshea on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:24PM (#9827126)
I don't think this is true. I doubt they would have a problem with someone implementing their own DOM rendering engine within their own app.

The real restriction is on executing JavaScript, scripting language execution isn't allowed except around some exceptions for Lua in game engines.

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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by aaronem on Friday July 03, 2015 @11:07PM (#9828980)
"Apple in 2015 is exactly the same company as Microsoft in 1998." OK, gotcha. Substantiation would be nice to see, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
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