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Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

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Post by SahAssar »

geerlingguy wrote: post #144
kevincox wrote: post #69

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I suspect this as well. But it seems so obvious that it is necessary for a while that I doubt that anyone takes it seriously.

I believe the Mac OS Classic environment wasn't installed by default in the early OS X days.

Mac OS Classic (running OS 9 apps on OS X) is more like a VM than a translation layer. The better comparison for rosetta 2 is rosetta 1.

Re: Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon

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Post by roca »

ascagnel_ wrote: post #221
roca wrote: post #164

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Mobile Safari does hold the Web back. Examples are easy to find: Safari doesn't support the standard unprefixed fullscreen API, while Firefox and Chrome have for years, so Web developers have to write a bunch of compatibility crap or accept fullscreen not working on iOS. Firefox and Chrome have supported WebGL2 for years, iOS Safari still doesn't.

> Safari doesn't support the standard unprefixed fullscreen API, while Firefox and Chrome have for years, so Web developers have to write a bunch of compatibility crap or accept fullscreen not working on iOS. Having used an iPad for general web browsing for a while, the worst change they made was allowing web apps write their own fullscreen interfaces. I can't think of any video website where they've done a better jo…

Fullscreen isn't just for video though. It's very commonly used for games. I also wrote fullscreen support for "DOM videos" (e.g. https://pernos.co/about/overview/) using the fullscreen API. The latter doesn't even support Webkit because the compatibility work was just too hard.
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