This week is the WebKit Contributor’s meeting — with the browser engineers who contribute to WebKit. Including from Apple, Igalia, Sony, Redhat & more.
Did you know that WebKit is not just the browser engine for Safari — but for many other browsers, apps, and platforms as well? Igalia @igalia maintains two of them: WebKitGTK @WebKitGTK and WPE @WPEWebKit
WebKit is especially great for devices that don’t have a lot of power. It’s used for digital signs, medical devices, game consoles and more!
@jni @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit
Hmmm. I am happy to know about your results in contrast to FF. Apparently Google Chrome also did a huge progress on energy consumption. Not so much of a battery killer anymore and in some benchmarks Chrome performed even better than Safari.
PS. I am not here to defend Chrome. Safari is also my daily driver. I just wish that Apple fixed bookmarks sync one day 🙏
https://pawelgrzybek.com/apple-please-fix-the-safari-reading-list/
Long time Birchtree readers know I love data, and love data even more when I can throw it into a graph. I’m also a fan of testing things that everyone generally agrees are true, but no one seems to have any data to back up. That brings us to
@pawelgrzybek @jensimmons @igalia @WebKitGTK @WPEWebKit indeed and to be perfectly clear — fuck Chrome. 😂
Sorry to hear about your reading list experience. I was a long-time user of Pocket before Apple added Reading List so this does not affect me. Fully on board with the defaults issue. (Currently considering a move to @wallabag but the inertia is very powerful 😂)
Jen Simmons
Juan Nunez-Iglesias
Paweł Grzybek