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Discussion on: February 11th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

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Nick Taylor

I know they've been working on it. Check out this thoughtful post from Dave Rupert about it.

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Ingo Steinke • Edited

I respect the hard work that browser vendors do! I try to make contructive contributions and bugzilla issues as well. And we definitely owe to @codepo8 for succeeding to launch a new Edge browser to replace Internet Explorer. I also respect Apple's innovative work on the original iPhone and Steve Job's achievements with NeXTSTEP and OSX. What I will never respect is companies intentionally blocking possible progress and open source software.

There are useful mobile browsers, there are different rendering engines, and there used to be alternative browsers using different rendering engines for iPhone users. It's not impossible to build and ship a working mobile browser based on the Gecko engine. Just so that the people who don't agree in Safari's 100vh implementation being a good feature can choose to use Firefox, Vivaldi or any other brother as their default user agent.

Browser developers are working hard, while companies like Apple (and formerly Microsoft, and currently Google as well) trying to use their power against open source software, usability, and sustainability.

Respect to the web browser people!

Read the linked posts and open bug reports if appropriate!