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I'm well aware of the data on residual browsers; we have better metrics on the browser side than most public data sets. I also track the high/mid/low device mix, and we see that us…

Author here. I work for Microsoft and can assure you I am not invested in Google's ad market position (except, perhaps, in the negative sense).

Article's author here. Arguments about "older browsers" are specious, particularly on iOS where Apple couples the browser engine to the OS, and forces all browsers to use Apple's b…

The data is from my blog series, the latest installment of which is here: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-... The top two lines are the fastest devices …

This data is from a series I publish; the latest update is here and includes multi-core scores: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-... Mobile devices rarel…

Hey Domenic, Sucks to be corresponding via The Second Worst Website In The World (TM), but here we are. Hope all's well on your end. A minor correction from Edge's perspective: we'…

That's the inspiring thing about the EU and UK regulatory frameworks: the penalties can be more than a slap on the wrist. Apple is playing a dangerous game by continuing to flout E…

"TL;DR: The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restriction…

It's not insane that you have to explain it to me, because your premise is _wrong_. Go look at the founding documents for web SDOs. Voluntary adoption is foundational to the entire…

Let's try this again: was Apple wrong to ship Storage Access ahead of everyone else? https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_document_requeststorageaccess In the world you want, how should lea…

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Author here. You seem to have missed the bleedingly obvious point that responsibilities are a function of scale. Nothing you allege was missed, and indeed it was considered at leng…

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That's not how any of this works; https://infrequently.org/2025/09/standards-and-the-fall-of-i...

The author here. It will seem odd to most, but my big concerns about Chrome relate to Android and ChromeOS. In neither environment did Chrome win share competitively. I think this …

Original author of the article here; I went out on a limb to document a bit of this in a footnote to a post a few years ago. Saying that it is unusual to call this behaviour out is…

I'm simply pointing out that Apple declined to try to constructively solve the problems developers expressed, demurred from engaging in design work in many areas, and did not ship …

That's simply a misunderstanding of how features come to the web. There is no immaculate conception for web APIs. No magical room in which they are dreamt up, or spring fully-forme…

The author here. It wasn't addressed in this post because it was treated separately several years ago in the same series (linked at the top): https://infrequently.org/2022/06/apple…

0 for 2. Impressive.

Fixed.

It's the new mobile UI, built on Web Components (via Lit), and it's much faster. Parts of it have apparently already migrated to the old experience.

Author here. So, if you read the post, you probably saw this: https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/#fn-t... The little model there helps us distinguish types of s…

Most are from a world that is better, but which the complexity merchants have convinced (thanks to asymmetric information) all but their closest competitors to replace with unwield…