{"id":37894,"date":"2022-12-14T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37894"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:34:16","slug":"apple-considering-dropping-webkit-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/apple-considering-dropping-webkit-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Considering Dropping WebKit Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/12\/14\/apple-considering-non-webkit-iphone-browsers\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33986406\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/zlvx6o\/apple_considering_dropping_requirement_for_iphone\/\">Reddit<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/12\/14\/apple-considering-non-webkit-iphone-browsers\/\"><p>As part of a larger story about Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/12\/13\/apple-europe-alternate-app-store-support\/\">plans to allow third-party app stores<\/a> on the iPhone and iPad in EU countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-12-13\/will-apple-allow-users-to-install-third-party-app-stores-sideload-in-europe\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em>&rsquo;s Mark Gurman<\/a> claimed that Apple is also considering removing its requirement for iPhone and iPad web browsers to use WebKit, the open source browser engine that powers Safari.<\/p><p>Gurman said this potential change comes in response to the EU&rsquo;s Digital Markets Act. It&rsquo;s unclear if Apple would drop the requirement in other regions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/apple-working-on-sideloading-for-europe\/\">Apple Working on Sideloading for Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/06\/eu-approves-digital-markets-act-and-digital-services-act\/\">EU Approves Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/the-time-to-fix-web-security-bugs\/\">The Time to Fix Web Security Bugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/07\/the-danger-of-sideloading-chromium\/\">The Danger of Sideloading Chromium<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/18\/the-hotel-cupertino-clause\/\">The Hotel Cupertino Clause<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol (Hacker News, Reddit): As part of a larger story about Apple&rsquo;s plans to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone and iPad in EU countries, Bloomberg&rsquo;s Mark Gurman claimed that Apple is also considering removing its requirement for iPhone and iPad web browsers to use WebKit, the open source browser engine that powers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-12-14T19:44:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"f60cf676-1625-42e0-bd81-f498763ae0df","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-14T19:34:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A9gz2dhYlQuC9gfSYdjrg3w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2085,2570,1927,31,2321,96,328],"class_list":["post-37894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-antitrust","tag-digital-markets-act-dma","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-web","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37915,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37894\/revisions\/37915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}