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matznerd

That is good to know. Is there a way to check whether an app is utilizing it or not?

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No major browser uses `WKWebView` because it has very large gaping design holes, making it a bad choice for a browser.

Firefox for iOS is. But yes, the gaping holes make making something competitive problematic.

Hm, I wasn't actually familiar with the Firefox for iOS project as a real project, just plan. Thanks

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios

Pretty active development. No releases on the app store, though.

Their blog post on May 22 about it: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/05/22/update-on...

No promises, but we are in the end game for v1.0. Stay tuned.

I see you guys are developing some of it in Swift. Should be interesting once Xcode 7 arrives and the amount of changes it requires. I think you might have jumped the gun a little.

In my project, I implemented a small component in Swift, and was a pain to convert. The automatic source upgrade tool did a terrible job, doing more damage than good.

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