Notes

Congratulations to the @W3C’s Web Fonts Working Group on their Emmy award!

(yes, really)

Thank you so much—I really appreciate it!

I thought Bruce worded it perfectly.

I’m curious: did you know about the #AppleBrowserBan prior to this? (I have a feeling that not many people are aware of the situation on iOS.)

More details here:

https://adactio.com/journal/17428

Every browser on iOS uses the same engine as Safari. They have to. Apple won’t allow rival rendering engines in the app store.

Firefox on iOS is a skinned version of Safari.

Chrome on iOS is a skinned version of Safari.

Do you realise how childish you sound?

“We shipped it first, nah-na-na-nah-nah!”

Have some self-awareness. You’re better than this.

Alex, you seem to be saying that any criticism of Safari (even if it’s unwarranted and unrelated) is justified by the rendering engine monopoly on iOS.

That’s childish. It does your/our cause more harm than good.

Ooh, that reminds me…

https://github.com/lynnandtonic/nestflix.fun/issues/455

Then focus on that.

Reading Parable Of The Talents by Octavia Butler.

Yeah, that gave me a squirmy feeling:

https://adactio.com/journal/17132

“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.

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.

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.

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.

And to be clear, I wrote at the time that crowdfunding accessibility features feels wrong:

https://adactio.com/journal/17132

But my concerns would be hypocritical if I worked on a browser that accepts crowdfunded contributions.

It’s really not a good look when you’re pissing on other browser makers shipping something, especially when the behaviour you’re mocking is only nit-pickingly different from your own empoyer’s behaviour.

And by “you” I don’t mean Google.

It absolutely was a whip-around.

If a browser maker accepts crowdfunded contributions, great. But then to later mock other browser markers for also accepting crowdfunded contributions? Not great.