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To: Swordmaker

Oh, and I’ve played around with some of the other non-webkit alternative iPhone/iPad browsers. My conclusion is they are not ready for prime time and are not good browsers. I would like to see a FireFox or Chrome iOS browser. . . But they are WebKit based.


42 posted on 08/24/2010 2:33:24 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone!)
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To: Swordmaker
Oh, and I’ve played around with some of the other non-webkit alternative iPhone/iPad browsers.

What browsers would those be? Do they actually render the HTML on the phone, not on remote servers like Opera?

I would like to see a FireFox or Chrome iOS browser. . . But they are WebKit based.

Per the articles I linked, that's by Apple's design. They currently restrict HTML rendering to using their engine only, based on what I linked (and one of those links is from just last month).

44 posted on 08/24/2010 2:40:00 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the Sting of Truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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