I see you, JS community still pretending Twitter is run by a normie human that isn't actively platforming fascists and seditionists.

Y'all posting here in '23 is an un-subtle tell.

If DoneHat can leave here you can too. Join all of us on Mastodon:

mastodon.social/auth/sign_up

In a massive blow to competition Apple has managed to shut the CMA's investigation into mobile browsers on a legal technicality.

One of the key remedies proposed was forcing Apple to allow rival browsers makers to port their real browsers to iOS.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Why are you here? This all ends the way every libertarian fever dream does: with one sad, middle aged man moaning about how life was better before Those People took his Precious.

OWA needs your 🫵 help to make universal Web Apps a reality.

You can make a real difference to ensure the future of the Web by supporting this work. We rely on donations to challenge wealthy gatekeepers who have every incentive to hold the Web back.

open-web-advocacy.org/donate/

🔥 New episode of JS Party 🔥

📌 Web development's lost decade
😎 with Alex Russell & Amal Hussein
🗃️ #javascript #frontend #frameworks

💚 jsparty.fm/263

Mozilla is working on bringing Firefox 🦊 to iOS 🥂

Real Firefox 🔥 with Gecko 🦎!

Apple's over a decade long ban on competitive third party browsers has almost certainly cost Firefox significant market share and 100s of millions in lost revenue.

theregister.com/2023/02/07/moz…

Leave before it becomes deeply inconvenient to leave.

The US🇺🇸 Agency NTIA have just published a report in which they extensively discuss:
❌ Apple's ban of third party browser engines on iOS
💰 Apple's and Google's self-preferencing of their own browsers
💕 Web Apps as an interoperable source of competition

LAST CALL: Less than two days left for you to have your voice heard on the UKs investigation into Apple's effective ban of third party iOS browsers.

Closes at midnight, Tuesday 17 January 2023 UK time.

Please email [email protected] explaining your views.

👇More Info

I check in with Alex Russell, Thomas Steiner and Alex Moore from Open Web Advocacy on three key issues for the web: 1) JavaScript performance woes caused by React, 2) Progressive Web Apps, and 3) Apple browser ban. thenewstack.io/2023-web-tech-…

The 🇬🇧UKs Competion and Markets Authority has released an issues statement on their market investigation reference into Mobile Browsers and Cloud Gaming.

They are seeking input into the issues and remedies raised.

@cmagovuk

Bad performance is bad accessibility. brucelawson.co.uk/2022/bad-perfo… - my riff on Alex Russell's post.

Welp, this account isn't suspended yet (but I'm not checking it), so might as well drop an update on devices, networks, and performance budgets while I still can:

'The Performance Inequality Gap, 2023':

infrequently.org/2022/12/perfor…

Guess I'm outta here. It's been real.

Unlike this account, my website will still be up over at infrequently.org

Ha!

The blocking of links to Mastodon servers now seems to include bio updates. Won't be checking this much from now on, so you can find me at toot-dot-cafe-slash-slightlyoff

Cory Doctorow from EFF with a long 🧵on the #AppleBrowserBan and what it means for Web Apps and Competition.