At last, a glimmer of hope for Vivaldi on iOS...
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/?td=keepreading-btm
The latest draft for the EU's upcoming Digital Markets Act has added explicit language that would protect web engines from anti-competitive limitations.
What this means for Vivaldi, and any browser on iOS in general, is that they would no longer be forced to follow Apple's silly restriction of requiring to use WebKit!
Mind you, Apple is very likely to resist this for as long as possible, but at least, but it's good to know that the WebKit supremacy on iOS is nearing its end.
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@altcode It’s already been mentioned iOS would likely be coming. Should Vivaldi already have started work on it, it’s on webkit. This just complicates things.
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@luetage said in At last, a glimmer of hope for Vivaldi on iOS...:
This just complicates things.
Oh, there's no doubt in my mind about that.
I always believed that the Vivaldi Team would either work under the webkit restriction, or wait it out for some government to force Apple to lift that restriction.
Though, If the team were to choose to develop it under webkit, that always raised this question in my mind:
If or when Apple is forced to allow other browser engines on iOS, would the Vivaldi team move towards blink to use the same engine everywhere, or do they keep the iOS version under webkit.
I can only assume that porting it back to blink for iOS would no doubt result in yet another long time of waiting.
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What is so bad about Safari's version of WebKit? Why is Chromium's Blink supposed to be better?
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@streptococcus It’s not about which engine is better. Vivaldi chose to use Blink and this should be the same independent from operating system.
