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The bombshell article of the week<\/a> is from Alex Russell of Google\/Chrome. Alex has long been super critical of Apple, particularly about how there is literally no option to run any other browser than Safari on iOS. This article isn’t just fist-waving about that, but a dissertation accusing Apple of real harm to the web platform by sluggish progress on Safari and a no-web-apps App Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Apple’s iOS browser (Safari) and engine (WebKit) are uniquely under-powered. Consistent delays in the delivery of important features ensure the web can never be a credible alternative to its proprietary tools and App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I appreciate Alex’s take here. It gives credit where credit is due, it places blame where it feels most fair to place it, and brings data to a complex conversation that deserves it. It’s hard not to get through the article and think that the web would be in a better place should Apple…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Taking them one at a time…<\/p>\n\n\n\n As far as Safari-behind-ness goes, I think more about the DevTools than I do web platform features. <\/p>\n\n\n\ncontain<\/code> and container queries. That one looms large for me as I want to use it as soon as possible, without polyfills<\/a>, once it stabilizes<\/a>. I know the joke goes that “Safari is the new IE” but I don’t tend to feel<\/em> that day-to-day in my typical web dev work. I feel like I can ship extremely capable websites to all browsers, including Safari, and not worry terribly much about Safari being a second-class experience. (I don’t make games or VR\/AR experiences, though.) I’m honestly more worried about Firefox here. Apple and Google have more money than God. It’s Mozilla I worry about being DDoS’d with web-feature onslaught, although to be fair, they seem to be doing fine at the moment. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n