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- Developing a Report on Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem – The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration is preparing a Report on Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem, following Biden’s Executive Order to address the problem of “dominant tech platforms undermining competition and reducing innovation. Includes PWAs and #AppleBrowserBan in scope.
- Questions and Answers: Digital Markets Act: Ensuring fair and open digital markets
- Trust – “many developers are suspicious of browser features but trusting of third-party libraries” by Jeremy keith
- Why I don’t miss React: a story about using the platform by Jack Franklin. Would Facebook ever end React? It was unthinkable that Nokia, Blackberry, MooTools, Internet Explorer would ever disappear. But they did.
- New to the web platform in April – Discover some of the interesting features that landed in stable and beta web browsers during April 2022. By Rachel Andrew
- Celebrating Firefox: How we got to 100 – Aww. I’m pretty sure I started with the preview release. Good times.
- Bundle Buddy – “Visualizing what code is in your web bundle, and how it got there” for all your “we had great DX writing this, why is it so slow and such a network hog and why are our customers using our competitors’ fast apps instead?” needs
- Well Color Us SurprisedThis SC Can Be a Tricky Customer – by Ian Lloyd, who doesn’t know how to spell “colour”.
- Global PC shipments pass 340 million in 2021 and 2022 is set to be even stronger – death of desktop exaggerated?
- Changing the face of the web: W3C Web Fonts Working Group and MPEG recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award – yes, really; W3C got an Emmy.
- Hack on Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs leads to $3m simian oblivion – My non-fungible Thoughts and Proof of Prayers to those who have suffered this terrible loss.
USA readers: you have just over 2 weeks to tell the US regulator your thoughts on the Apple Browser Ban, whether you’re in favour of Apple allowing real browser choice on iOS by setting Safari free, or against it. You’re welcome to use Bringing Competition to Walled Gardens, our response to a similar investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority for inspiration/ cutting and pasting. Make your voice heard!
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