Apple teams up with Google, Mozilla, Microsoft to improve browser interoperability
Apple has partnered with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on a new endeavor to improve the interoperability and user experience of their web browsers.
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The group are working on a new benchmark dubbed Interop 2022, which will "improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas." Along with the browser makers, software consultant groups Bocoup and Igalia are also on board.
All four of the browser makers have agreed to focus on the 15 areas, which will include cascade layers, color spaces and CSS color functions, new viewport units, scrolling, and more. The project will focus on the four browsers involved: Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
"For the first time ever, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers," the group said in a blog post.
The end goal is to make web applications look and function similarly on different web browsers, which isn't the case currently. The goals are also all design-focused, meaning that browsers have an incentive to participate alongside their rivals.
"All of these technologies are important to Apple and to everyone working on WebKit. We care deeply about the health of the web, and interoperable implementations of web standards," Apple said in a statement. "We welcome collaboration with our colleagues in the many web standards organizations, and in Interop 2022 to make the web as interoperable as it can be."
This isn't the first time that browser makers have teamed up on a similar effort. Back in 2021, they also partnered on a project called Combat 2021, which "made great progress." However, the Interop 2022 blog posts noted that were was "still room for improvement."
Read on AppleInsider
Browser icons
The group are working on a new benchmark dubbed Interop 2022, which will "improve the experience of developing for the web in 15 key areas." Along with the browser makers, software consultant groups Bocoup and Igalia are also on board.
All four of the browser makers have agreed to focus on the 15 areas, which will include cascade layers, color spaces and CSS color functions, new viewport units, scrolling, and more. The project will focus on the four browsers involved: Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
"For the first time ever, all major browser vendors, and other stakeholders, have come together to solve the top browsers compatibility issues identified by web developers," the group said in a blog post.
The end goal is to make web applications look and function similarly on different web browsers, which isn't the case currently. The goals are also all design-focused, meaning that browsers have an incentive to participate alongside their rivals.
"All of these technologies are important to Apple and to everyone working on WebKit. We care deeply about the health of the web, and interoperable implementations of web standards," Apple said in a statement. "We welcome collaboration with our colleagues in the many web standards organizations, and in Interop 2022 to make the web as interoperable as it can be."
This isn't the first time that browser makers have teamed up on a similar effort. Back in 2021, they also partnered on a project called Combat 2021, which "made great progress." However, the Interop 2022 blog posts noted that were was "still room for improvement."
Read on AppleInsider
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Yah, I heard Chevy has finally realized it would be so much easier and better for everyone if they stopped developing their own engines and just put Ford engines into their vehicles.
You realize that Chromium was spawned _from_ WebKit, right? List 5 industry-standard features where WebKit is lagging behind. We're listening.
In my experience, anything running on Chromium sucks the life out of my machines and I'm not prepared to accept that. It doesn't matter if I'm using Chrome, Edge, Brave Browser, Opera, or whatever, they ALL are slow. WebKit is a much better browser system.
As for WebKit being behind development, this is just wrong. Chromium might use more features but it is rushing to the table with features that are half-baked and not fully implemented in the HTML and CSS specifications. Just having those features doesn't a better browser make. Having those features working IS and that's why Safari/WebKit seem so far behind.