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PlainName:

--- Quote ---How great would it be if you had a choice of messaging providers
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Or even just browsers. On any other platform there are a plethora to choose from, but on iPhone there is webkit and.. that's it. Even Google's Chrome has to be lipstick on webkit, so no iPhone user could run a more up-to-date or feature-rich browser.

Fredderic:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 23, 2022, 11:55:30 pm ---
--- Quote ---How great would it be if you had a choice of messaging providers
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Or even just browsers. On any other platform there are a plethora to choose from, but on iPhone there is webkit and.. that's it. Even Google's Chrome has to be lipstick on webkit, so no iPhone user could run a more up-to-date or feature-rich browser.

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Well…  Not so much.  For most people, it's basically Chrome, Firefox, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, or Chrome.

Is one of the reasons I stick with Firefox…  We really need to keep at least ONE decent alternative to Chrome in play on PC's and other non-Apple platforms as well — and as someone who uses both, I really do actually prefer Firefox anyhow.  Chrome is my backup browser mostly for when I don't want to start Firefox (with the 13 windows, and over 2K open tabs — yeah, I probably need to clean those up.  It's on my TODO list.), or for odd occasions when Firefox simply refuses to work with a page (it happens…  it ALSO happens that Chrome sometimes does the same, so having a second browser with a different rendering engine is simply a good idea.)
Zero999:

--- Quote from: Fredderic on February 24, 2022, 06:09:25 am ---
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on February 23, 2022, 11:55:30 pm ---
--- Quote ---How great would it be if you had a choice of messaging providers
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Or even just browsers. On any other platform there are a plethora to choose from, but on iPhone there is webkit and.. that's it. Even Google's Chrome has to be lipstick on webkit, so no iPhone user could run a more up-to-date or feature-rich browser.

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Well…  Not so much.  For most people, it's basically Chrome, Firefox, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, or Chrome.

Is one of the reasons I stick with Firefox…  We really need to keep at least ONE decent alternative to Chrome in play on PC's and other non-Apple platforms as well — and as someone who uses both, I really do actually prefer Firefox anyhow.  Chrome is my backup browser mostly for when I don't want to start Firefox (with the 13 windows, and over 2K open tabs — yeah, I probably need to clean those up.  It's on my TODO list.), or for odd occasions when Firefox simply refuses to work with a page (it happens…  it ALSO happens that Chrome sometimes does the same, so having a second browser with a different rendering engine is simply a good idea.)

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Its much better now than 20 years ago, when M$ Internet Exploder was the only browser which worked on most sites. A lot of credit is given to Firefox and smaller browsers such as Opera for the current level of website-multi-browser-interoperability, but the fact that M$ failed on the smartphone is the main reason.
Fredderic:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 24, 2022, 08:39:36 am ---Its much better now than 20 years ago, when M$ Internet Exploder was the only browser which worked on most sites. A lot of credit is given to Firefox and smaller browsers such as Opera for the current level of website-multi-browser-interoperability, but the fact that M$ failed on the smartphone is the main reason.

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I don't know if that's "the main reason"… I recall IE struggling long before smartphones were a general thing.  But I do believe we still face the very real possibility of going backwards again, if it becomes a Chrome monoculture.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Fredderic on February 24, 2022, 03:28:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 24, 2022, 08:39:36 am ---Its much better now than 20 years ago, when M$ Internet Exploder was the only browser which worked on most sites. A lot of credit is given to Firefox and smaller browsers such as Opera for the current level of website-multi-browser-interoperability, but the fact that M$ failed on the smartphone is the main reason.

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I don't know if that's "the main reason"… I recall IE struggling long before smartphones were a general thing.  But I do believe we still face the very real possibility of going backwards again, if it becomes a Chrome monoculture.

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Monochrome?    :P
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