It remains open to debate whether allowing non-WebKit based browsers onto iOS like Firefox, Chrome, and Edge would be good for users or diminish the experience and security of browsing on the iPhone and iPad. The discussion around Apple's WebKit restriction is growing to be at the forefront of many issues with browsing on iOS and iPadOS. In its mobile ecosystems market study interim report, the CMA said that Apple defended its WebKit policy on iOS using the following rationale:Īmid the ongoing debate, some developers have rallied behind the Twitter hashtag #AppleBrowserBan and launched an advocacy group to express their frustration with Apple's WebKit restriction. If Apple stops mandating the use of WebKit on iOS and iPadOS, the developers behind the mobile versions of browsers like Chrome and Edge could switch to Chromium like their desktop counterparts, enabling Chromium to obtain even larger overall market share and potentially limit the chances of rival technologies competing with it. Beyond Chrome, Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, dominate the other most popular browsers.
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Despite Safari being the default browser on the iPhone and iPad, Safari has a 26.71 percent market share on mobile, while Chrome dominates both iOS and Android with a market share of 62.06 percent. Safari currently has a more secure position on mobile platforms than it does on desktops, but it still comes second to Google Chrome. According to data from web analytics service StatCounter, Safari holds a 9.84 percent market share of desktop browsers compared to Google Chrome's overwhelming 65.38 percent. However, WKWebView also support key paths which are observable through Combine framework which makes our life much easier. Usually, WKWebView property changes like canGoBack or canGoForward are only observable through Key-Value Observing. Nothing to worry, let’s use Combine for this. We also need to know when we can go back or forward based on the WKWebView.
Then how about adding a back and forward buttons when possible like any good browsing experience? Let’s get to it.įor those 2 cases, we need some kind of binding system to be notified when the user set a new url destination. WKWebView with Combineįirst, like any web browsers, I want to leave mobile users the ability to feed their own url destinations. We’re not done yet with this sample, let’s try to improve the experience. It’s to make the model observable but at the point, it actually doesn’t require to be yet. Why does the model has to implement ObservableObject protocol? That’s it! Our WKWebView is passed as parameter to be render, but it’s the actual model that controls its content. Struct ContentView: View StateObject var model = WebViewModel()