Chrome has been doing some terribly shady stuff with Blink whether we look at their various tracking proposals, “portals” which are a blatant attempt at ossifying Google as basically the internet itself, or the extreme standard-stuffing they continue to participate in to ensure no further competitors can pop up.
But beyond that nearly every point you raise here is completely off.
WebKit is superior to Blink, in almost all ways. It’s simply a much better browser and has been for a couple years now. Faster, lighter, and supports nearly everything you need. Every time I’m forced use Chrome, it’s like having to walk through a shady neighborhood - I literally can’t wait to close it. That thing sucks memory and battery in a way no app should, and Googles numerous shady tactics in trying to get you to login so they can avoid your privacy settings is downright hostile.
Leaps in best practices? Is that a joke? Web Components pushed by them is one of the worst things to happen to the web. Half of the standards they’ve pushed are actually regressions.
And again, Chrome is much slower and more bloated. If anything Safari is far better today for delivering a more native experience.
And your last paragraph is very much the kicker. The funny thing is the Safari thing is the only thing keeping Chrome in check. If this is what they’ve tried to get away with with Safari, I don’t understand how you can be advocating for even less competition. Interop is an incredible project that will save developers massive amounts of time, while ensuring we don’t end up with the most privacy invasive and manipulative company of all time controlling the web for the next 1000 years. Thank god for Safari.
PR and development was led by them and it was designed so that they could basically turn the AMP frame into a first class spec so they could capture your activity past the search page.
Chrome has been doing some terribly shady stuff with Blink whether we look at their various tracking proposals, “portals” which are a blatant attempt at ossifying Google as basically the internet itself, or the extreme standard-stuffing they continue to participate in to ensure no further competitors can pop up.
But beyond that nearly every point you raise here is completely off.
WebKit is superior to Blink, in almost all ways. It’s simply a much better browser and has been for a couple years now. Faster, lighter, and supports nearly everything you need. Every time I’m forced use Chrome, it’s like having to walk through a shady neighborhood - I literally can’t wait to close it. That thing sucks memory and battery in a way no app should, and Googles numerous shady tactics in trying to get you to login so they can avoid your privacy settings is downright hostile.
Leaps in best practices? Is that a joke? Web Components pushed by them is one of the worst things to happen to the web. Half of the standards they’ve pushed are actually regressions.
And again, Chrome is much slower and more bloated. If anything Safari is far better today for delivering a more native experience.
And your last paragraph is very much the kicker. The funny thing is the Safari thing is the only thing keeping Chrome in check. If this is what they’ve tried to get away with with Safari, I don’t understand how you can be advocating for even less competition. Interop is an incredible project that will save developers massive amounts of time, while ensuring we don’t end up with the most privacy invasive and manipulative company of all time controlling the web for the next 1000 years. Thank god for Safari.