Examining Apple's Web Standards Collaboration: Evidence vs. Narrative

The pace of progress matters because platforms are competitions, and actors that prevent expansions of basic capabilities risk consigning the web to the dustbin.

I've been hearing confusing reports of Apple's openness to collaboration on challenging APIs so often that either my priors are invalid, or something else is at work.

Inside that framework, there is much to argue over regarding the relative merits of specific features and evolution of web capabilities.

Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence.