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by slightlyoff 2mo ago
I'm well aware of the data on residual browsers; we have better metrics on the browser side than most public data sets. I also track the high/mid/low device mix, and we see that users on low-spec machines are generally less u
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by slightlyoff 2mo ago
Author here. I work for Microsoft and can assure you I am not invested in Google's ad market position (except, perhaps, in the negative sense).
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by slightlyoff 2mo ago
Article's author here. Arguments about "older browsers" are specious, particularly on iOS where Apple couples the browser engine to the OS, and forces all browsers to use Apple's binary. If there is a legacy browser prob
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by slightlyoff 3mo ago
The data is from my blog series, the latest installment of which is here: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-... The top two lines are the fastest devices available in the iOS and Android
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by slightlyoff 3mo ago
This data is from a series I publish; the latest update is here and includes multi-core scores: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-... Mobile devices rarely last beyond the 5 year mark, al
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by slightlyoff 5mo ago
Hey Domenic, Sucks to be corresponding via The Second Worst Website In The World (TM), but here we are. Hope all's well on your end. A minor correction from Edge's perspective: we've participated in OT using Phi models, but h
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by slightlyoff 11mo ago
That's the inspiring thing about the EU and UK regulatory frameworks: the penalties can be more than a slap on the wrist. Apple is playing a dangerous game by continuing to flout EU law and pursue a maximalist, scorched-earth strategy.
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What Apple's UK SMS Designation Means for Browsers and Web Apps(open-web-advocacy.org)
19 points by slightlyoff 11mo ago|8 comments
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by slightlyoff 11mo ago
"TL;DR: The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has stat
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by slightlyoff 11mo ago
It's not insane that you have to explain it to me, because your premise is _wrong_. Go look at the founding documents for web SDOs. Voluntary adoption is foundational to the entire effort, and as I keep pointing out, Apple is the only
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by slightlyoff 11mo ago
Let's try this again: was Apple wrong to ship Storage Access ahead of everyone else? https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_document_requeststorageaccess In the world you want, how should leadership in designs manifest when there
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by slightlyoff 11mo ago
Author here. You seem to have missed the bleedingly obvious point that responsibilities are a function of scale. Nothing you allege was missed, and indeed it was considered at length in the longer series on these topics: https://
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
That's not how any of this works; https://infrequently.org/2025/09/standards-and-the-fall-of-i...
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
The author here. It will seem odd to most, but my big concerns about Chrome relate to Android and ChromeOS. In neither environment did Chrome win share competitively. I think this has made them weaker and less useful, and that was mirrored
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
Original author of the article here; I went out on a limb to document a bit of this in a footnote to a post a few years ago. Saying that it is unusual to call this behaviour out is a drastic understatement: https://infrequently.o
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
I'm simply pointing out that Apple declined to try to constructively solve the problems developers expressed, demurred from engaging in design work in many areas, and did not ship alternatives instead (as it could have, and did in the
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
That's simply a misunderstanding of how features come to the web. There is no immaculate conception for web APIs. No magical room in which they are dreamt up, or spring fully-formed from the head of Zeus. Instead, they come from open,
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
The author here. It wasn't addressed in this post because it was treated separately several years ago in the same series (linked at the top): https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple-is-not-defending-brow... TL
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by slightlyoff 1y ago
0 for 2. Impressive.
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by slightlyoff 3y ago
Fixed.
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
It's the new mobile UI, built on Web Components (via Lit), and it's much faster. Parts of it have apparently already migrated to the old experience.
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Author here. So, if you read the post, you probably saw this: https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/#fn-t... The little model there helps us distinguish types of sites, and so the very first
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Most are from a world that is better, but which the complexity merchants have convinced (thanks to asymmetric information) all but their closest competitors to replace with unwieldy tech. E.g.: https://app.speedcurve.com/ben
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Author of the article here. TL;DR: your JS is probably worse than you think. Write HTML and CSS instead. It will go better for everyone. And feel free to ignore the most popular JS framework vendors; they have not known what they are talkin
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Hey; OP here. Thanks for taking the time to read. Something I've tried to highlight in other posts, and perhaps skimped on in the verbiage around the lists, was that results for users are the result of culture, not technology. I'v
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Hard pass: https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=230205_B...
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
You might try https://sh.reddit.com
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
Device performance has been growing in diversity as we approach smartphone saturation (the last couple of hundred million flipphones getting traded for < $100 low-end smartphones). I'm working on an update to this series, but here&#
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
OP here; at a tactical level, prefer HTML/CSS and MPA architecture until you have firm evidence of long sessions and many interactions per session that justify JS, and when you add JS to smooth a common interaction based on data, build
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by slightlyoff 4y ago
The Web Push Standard supports e2e encryption for messages sent from your app to the device: https://web.dev/push-notifications-web-push-protocol/#the-pa...

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