OWA raised "body scroll issues" as a candidate for Interop 2025. The inability to block body scroll in mobile Safari makes it very difficult to build native-like applications and remains a very long standing issue. Want to help, give it a πŸ‘ in github.
Webventures: An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers "iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers [..] frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native."
EU Commission has opened a proceeding into the process Apple has set up to address interoperability requests submitted by developers and third parties for iOS and iPadOS. This is a specification proceeding to "assist Apple in complying with its interoperability obligations". The EU commission states the process to address interoperability requests should be "transparent, timely, and fair". See:
For 7 years, Google has failed to keep its commitment to share the ability to install Web Apps with third-party browsers on Android. With regulatory intervention from the EU, Japan and the UK that may be changing. Read about it here:
β€œApple told MacRumors that Open Web Advocacy's allegation that Apple is misleading the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is inaccurate” β€œThe design was apparently never intended to discourage users from setting third-party browsers as the default.”
The Register: "Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops" Apple claims they aren't being anti-competitive, but there isn't really any plausible deniability for that UI decision, so that might explain why they are trying to pretend it never existed.
Breaking: Apple appears to mislead UK Regulator over deceptive default browser user interface Read the full story: