I just watched it this evening too and agree! I mean hopefully we'd get luckier, but seems plausible. Some details from their technical advisor: www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Yes DMA does require it and we've built a prototype that we can see has some real wins over our WebKit based version. But there are still several reasons why we can't ship a serious blink-based browser in the EU, mostly covered here: open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

IMHO they are free to do so as long as users can choose to use a better browser. It's how Netscape took over from IE when Microsoft stopped investing in it.

But on iOS, users have no choice! This then reduces the pressure on Apple to invest in making Safari better on iOS.

And then we would have done a postmortem to reflect on what we learned from the incident and how to prevent similar ones in the future. docs.google.com/presentation...

Instead we just accepted 2 months to even get a 'have a repo?' response on the bug, and 3 months of high crashes for our users.

Here's another example of a WebKit crash that really hurt Chrome iOS product quality bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi....

As I said on the bug, if this had been blink/Android we would have immediately been doing emergency reverts of any possibly related CL to try to bring the rate down.

Hmm... Worked OK for me an hour later from the corp network where it failed before.

I believe it's fundamentally impossible to ship Chrome on iOS meeting the same high quality bar we have on other platforms when we are forced to rely on WKWebView and very slow and unreliable issue handling.

If this study is right, it means telling pregnant mothers with a fever to "tough it out" will likely significantly increase the occurrence of ASD! Guess we're going to do the experiment. 😕

"the fever-associated ASD risk was attenuated among mothers who reported taking antipyretic medications (OR = 1.30, 95 % CI 0.59, 2.84), but remained elevated for those who did not (OR = 2.55, 95 % CI 1.30, 4.99)." 😲

Yup. We're ready at Google Waterloo, we've got a beautiful new building open! Common north!

Yup. We're ready at Google Waterloo, we've got a beautiful new building open! Common north!

I always like chatting about these topics and I love your work. But I'll have to check with my PR team. Will DM to coordinate.

Thanks! Yeah this is a blessing in surprise. As long as my flight home Friday doesn't get cancelled too 😛. I think AC must be most of the flights to/from Canada so there's apparently not a lot of options when they strike!

Hah, definitely no zoom, no recording. IRL still has its place. 🙂

Maybe if there's some interesting discussion I'll share my takeaways here.

We'll just have to do it again sometime with more planning 🙂.

Sorry to hear it, good luck! If you can get it in Paris I'd suggest a nasal spray like Vicks first defense for the kiddo. It's early but the science is promising and I'm convinced it's saved my family from virus transmission multiple times now.

Indeed. Really enjoying my spontaneous bike ride this morning too!

Oh, and of course reducing friction, lag, jank, scams, noise and just generally improving UX quality of the web while also improving interoperability across browsers. Those have been my main focus for most of the past decade. We have made big strides, but not nearly enough IMHO! [5.5/7]