The EU's Digital Markets Act is delivering real wins for consumers in the EU, and in some cases globally. Apple and Google are opening up functionality that was previously reserved for their own products.

But one glaring failure stands out: browser engines on iOS.

📖 Read: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-is-delivering-real-wins-but-not-yet-for-browser-engines/

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Our team at Microsoft has been leading the way on making web apps easier to install.

Use cases include installing an app from your own site and app stores.

Our latest proposal: a trusted browser-provided <install> element.

Now ready for testing ➡️ https://developer.chrome.com/blog/install-element-ot

Reminder:

On 14th of May CSS Day ticket prices will go up by €75 + VAT.

Want to come to https://cssday.nl ? Ordering now is cheaper than ordering later.

See you in June,

By now you've all probably heard about the latest shenanigans from Google and their love for in-browser AI features (if you don't, this is the story: https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features).

Our team has been inspecting the Chromium code and disabling stuff from the very first version of Vivaldi (we have some posts about this in our blog, such as https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-vivaldi/ or https://vivaldi.com/blog/no-google-vivaldi-users-will-not-get-floced/).

We've also been very outspoken about our dislike of the built-in AI trend in the browser industry, but in case there's still any doubts: yes, we disable all Gemini-related features, and we've been doing it for a while.

#Ai #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Google #Gemini

Quickly scrolling a long page on an iPhone 16 pro on Safari: consistently crashes

Doing the same on 2013 Moto X with 2 GB RAM on Chrome: doesn't crash

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312727

From @rgadellaa

First Web MIDI, now Web Serial! Could not be happier to see Mozilla returning to an expansive vision for the web. The idea that we should download unsafe native binaries to get things done was always naff, and an abdication of the browser's role in the lives of users:

https://fosstodon.org/@balloob/116398481380578311

/cc @firefoxwebdevs