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by pwinnski 1720 days ago
I'm not sure why you think people can't, or don't, do both?

I don't want Apple to ever allow non-Safari browser engines onto iOS, because I've been around long enough to know that Chrome will inevitably be the only target for webdevs. The only reason any webdevs support anything but Blink currently is iOS.

I also think that Apple should improve Safari. You and I might disagree on what it means to improve Safari, though.

If you can think of how to avoid the first problem, I welcome your suggestions, but so far the only answer I ever see is, "that won't happen," almost always from people who never ran the NCSA Mosaic browser or used gopher.

So let's advocate for Apple to make Safari better--assuming we can agree on what that means--but never by insisting that they allow a Blink-based browser onto iOS.

P.S. CSS issues, yes! Push notifications and a few other PWA-specific issues, please no.