Bruce Lawson

  1. A first look at the Web Install API

    I was excited to see that the proposed new Web Install API has entered Origin Trial in Chromium. It kind of works in Chromium Canary, but is most complete in Microsoft Edge beta (or, if you’re reading this after December 2025, starting with version 143). This makes sense, as the work has been done by…

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  2. Reading List 350

    This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 7.7 for desktop and mobile, with features requested by users rather than planet-burning plagiarism-filled Generative AI. “A.I…

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  3. Tim Berners-Lee on Apple’s WebKit monopoly

    I recently listened to a podcast called Decoder with Nilay Patel, in which Tim Berners-Lee was interviewed. Nilay asked Sir Uncle Timbo about browser competition on iOS. I’m happy to report that the inventor of the Web agrees with me that Apple inexplicably doesn’t want the Web to compete with its single…

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  4. Reading List 349

    This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. If you prefer to keep browsing human, without planet-burning plagiarism-filled Generative AI inserting itself between you and the Web, Vivaldi has you covered…

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  5. Apple App Store guilty of abuse of its dominant position in UK, and arse-weasels

    In May 2021, Dr Rachael Kent, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy & Society Education in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, led a class action against Apple on behalf of 19.6 million UK consumers. The complaint alleges that Apple abuses its dominant position through exclusion…

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  6. 4 years, 3 months and 22 days

    It’s a mere 4 years, 3 months and 22 days since a weird Australian developer and his brother contacted me to ask if I would be interested in speaking to UK competition regulators about Apple’s continuing holding back the Web (which I’d long been moaning about on Twitter). Today, the UK has finally designated…

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