January 23rd, 2022

I feel you’re deliberately avoiding the bigger picture here twitter.com/jaffathecake/s…

And to be clear, I wrote at the time that crowdfunding accessibility features feels wrong: adactio.com/journal/17132 But my concerns would be hypocritical if I worked on a browser that accepts crowdfunded contributions. adactio.com/notes/18785

I agree that Apple’s priorities are out of whack. Take them to task for having priorities that are out of whack. Taking them to task for accepting contributions is a distraction. It harms your case. adactio.com/notes/18786

It’s like when a government praises eg a homelessness charity. I can be thankful for the work the charity does, I can be thankful, I guess, that the government literally allowed the work to happen, but also be sad that the situation required a charity to pick that work up.

Anyway, I am just very happy that the European Digital Markets Act now includes the amendment requiring mandatory interoperability also from web browsers and naming browsers as critical core service. Somewhen at IndieWebCamp demoed broken registerProtocolHandler. Nothing changed.

I’m not taking them to task for accepting the work, I’m angry at the things that put us in this whole situation. Especially in light of the browser ban on iOS, and the horrendous bugs we’ve all had to deal with in the past year.

Yes! Exactly! That’s exactly how I felt when Yoav had a crowdfunding campaign to get picture in Blink and when Agalia had a crowdfunding campaign to get :focus-visible in Webkit. Same energy. adactio.com/notes/18787

Again, that was a first experimental implementation, not a catch-up. Everywhere Chrome is installed, folks can use other browser engines. And even then, I do think it reflects badly on Chrome. Banning criticism here just creates a race to the bottom.

Just now: > I’m not taking them to task for accepting the work. Three hours ago: > Please DONATE NOW to the world’s richest company, to help feed their starving browser. adactio.com/notes/18788

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And follow my reply 😀

Because Blink never receives any external contributions? Fuck me. Get angry at Apple not allowing other browser engines all you want, but you’re better than blaming the point of fucking open source, especially when you’re part of a major open source project yourself.

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I fundamentally disagree. The current position of Google’s devrel teams that publicly shitting on the competition is not only OK but a good thing is the tone-deaf idea.

“Banning criticism” …really? Next you’ll be saying that Google is a victim of cancel culture. There is absolutely a race to the bottom going on, I agree with you there. I think you won the race with your mocking off-message tweet. adactio.com/notes/18789