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The area under these lines is a measurement of lost potential because Apple prevents real browser choice on iOS. An integral of fail; a decade of suck.
Join @owa to keep it from continuing:
https://webstatus.dev/stats?startDate=2015-01-01&endDate=2025-09-01
The authoritarians want us to accept the fear they deploy and the illogic they spout to damp inquiry. This is why science is their enemy, and why they're doing more than anyone dreamed to destroy it.
They understand that if science stands, they fall.
I spend a truly horrifying fraction of my time walking folks who have been doing frontend engineering in anger for many years through the fundamentals of how the browser actually processes content in order to explain just how deeply they've been duped. Everything most folks need to know is in this talk:
https://youtu.be/K2QHdgAKP-s?si=ToSngpfOu9tTxC1E
What *isn't* in the talk is that userland component systems like React don't encapsulate squat. They *look* like components in code, but are div soup post-compiler.
If you would like to control styling and layout costs (in contrast to these folks), I wrote up some of what that looks like today in this explainer for a feature I hope we build soon:
Alex Russell
Morten Juhl-Johansen
Zach Leatherman
Andy Luhrs