Singling Firefox out by saying "even Firefox" makes me think you don't expect Firefox to "get it right." I am wondering why that is.
Chrome is sprinting ahead with new feature at a high pace, however, we should make sure the web only uses features that are widely available in all major browsers.
There's a browser that has almost absolute domination of the market, chooses what features become standards simply by shipping them, is aggressively anti-competitive, and yet you're complaining about safari?
With All due respect, this is a very Apple view.
Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet. We can debate whether that fit anyone's definition of monopoly. But it is definitely not on a minority platform, nor a minority browser.
Safari's current features set doesn't have much problem as a Web Page browser. And wouldn't be a concern if it wasn't for App Store's policy. But when Apple is the majority or dominant platform in a market these can no longer be looked at as an individual case. And will very likely be used as a weapon in AntiTrust issue.
To be quite frankly honestly I dislike PWA and Chrome and I wish Safari stay the way it is and only Apps Store changes its policy. But right now Apple seems to be willing to fight that at all cost. And there are no middle ground to balance things out.
What happened with Edge? I've been out of the loop with MS stuff for years, and last I heard you had to select a browser in the EU or something, but was this also made mandatory worldwide?
I'd imagine still being bundled with Windows means their usage is not insignificant...
Take a look at the settings for IE, which actually improved with each new version, and you can clearly see which side MS used to be on. Then compare it with the useless dumbed-down "modern" UI of even pre-Chromium Edge.
Despite enterprise teams already finding Chrome's six week release cycle tedious, Microsoft immediately followed Chrome to announcing their four week cycle in the last week, and Edge also failed to protect ad blocking by rejecting the Manifest V3 changes for browser extensions designed to cripple ad blockers.
Basically, at any opportunity Microsoft has had to differentiate itself, it has decided to just do what Google does.
The Chromium Edge doesn’t support 3rd party cookies already and thus isn’t really subject to targeted ads like Safari or Firefox.
Now please continue with your reasoning.
And Chromium-based Edge has tracking prevention through filter lists, while Chrome does not. [2]
Microsoft is no one's privacy hero these days, I will concede that. But some of these specific claims are just wrong.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshsu
[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/learn-abo...
It is true Microsoft ported some of it's tracking prevention features over to Chromium Edge, but it certainly isn't a step above or beyond Firefox or Safari, and it's frustrating Microsoft continues to follow Google in places reasonable companies should not go.
As for Eric Lawrence, if Eric gets quoted a lot that's probably because he wrote the first versions of Fiddler, the debugging localhost proxy that many Windows developers use, so tech journalists that specialize in Microsoft have heard of him through their developer acquaintances. Plus his Microsoft email address is easy to guess: [his Twitter username]@microsoft.com
Eric left Microsoft after over 10 years, went through 2 companies including Google, then came back within about 6 years. I consider him closer to Microsoft in outlook than Google, though one could plausibly disagree given how rude he was about his old team's products IE and Edge while he was away.
As for "Principal Program Manager," that being misleading about scope is news to me, and if it is, that's on the journalists to clarify, because this kind of title is commonplace and implies very little. At any tech company "Program/Product Manager" is not necessarily a people leader. "Principal" doesn't change this. "Principal" at Microsoft and other tech companies is just a rank like "Senior," albeit a hard-to-earn and usually well-deserved one. If I say I am a "Principal Product Manager, HotTechCo BlahBlah," I don't think anyone in the industry will assume I run the entirety of that product.
Several pages say Sundaram's title is Technical Fellow and VP of Engineering. I assume you know what you're talking about. But you can't blame people for thinking it's an engineering role only.