I haven’t noticed any major issues with Webkit on my Mac, only that Safari’s UI sucks.
Unfortunately Gnome Web also inherits most of Safari’s bad UI design. Really the only thing I want from Gnome Web (apart from performance improvements) is to have a bookmarks bars like Chromium and Firefox. Having to go into the bookmarks side bar is a major slowdown. I’ve had to work around it by using a keyboard shortcut for a new tab, typing in the bookmark name, then using arrow keys to navigate to it.
What are its benefits? It basically just feels like Safari, unfortunately including the things about Safari I don’t like.
Main thing I noticed is that it has the built in tracker (and I think ad?) blocking. I use AdGuard on Safari, but sometimes it doesn’t work correctly because AdGuard stopped running in the background.
Huh, he mains NixOS. Always a bit funny to see someone daily driving a distro different than what they professionally work on.
I thought I recognized that blog, I remember reading his blog TPM+FDE for NixOS back when I was trying NixOS.
There’s a theory that they’re the same person. I’m not sure how reputable it is, I follow them both, but haven’t seen any videos of them.
It certainly is a bit funny how Asahi Lina chose not to take a leadership position and she hasn’t steamed dev work in a month…
Clickbait. The VP Engineering for Ubuntu made a post that he was looking into using the Rust utils for Ubuntu and has been daily driving them and encouraged others to try
It’s by no means certain this will be done.
Safari has PWAs. They call it “Add to Dock”. Works well in my experience.