Notices by Open Web Advocacy (owa@mastodon.social)

Apple backs down on killing web apps! 🎉

But the fight goes on!✊

Read More: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-backs-off-killing-web-apps/

Apple will break Web Apps (PWAs) in the EU within the next week ‼️

In order to stop them, we need evidence from you that the harm they are choosing to inflict on EU businesses and consumers is real and significant.

👇👇 Please fill in our NEW more detailed survey: https://forms.gle/oD8chWN1oQzN6s5aA

Apple has seen Web Apps as potential threat to the AppStore since 2011.

Apple execs in email titled "HTML5 Poses Threat to Flash and the AppStore" say "I think someday we will see a challenge from ... a web based solution"

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https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

Let’s make it very clear. Apple is under NO obligation to kill Web Apps in the EU. It’s a spiteful decision driven from pure greed.

Don’t put up with it, join us in fighting back

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ‼️

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https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

In the biggest, life-changing update for Web App developers everywhere, Safari/Webkit has released:
* Push Notifications
* Badging
* Third-Party Browser support for Web Apps
* Integration for managing notifications

We'd like to say a huge thank-you to the Webkit team ♥️

https://webkit.org/blog/13878/web-push-for-web-apps-on-ios-and-ipados/

Google is working on bringing Chromium to iOS 🥂

After a more than decade long ban of competitive third party browsers on iOS, code commits shows that Google working on bringing Chrome to iOS.

A great step, but the battle is not over...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/googles_chromium_ios/