this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
476 points (99.6% liked)

Technology

66353 readers
4367 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No you just don't understand the metaphor.

If electric cars cannot be sold, If for example they were actually illegal, then how do you sell electric cars? If

If you have to use the Safari engine for everything and the Safari engine doesn't support a particular feature, then there is no way to use that feature on iOS. You can't develop a workaround because the work around would require you to have access to arbitrary system commands, and that's not how web development works.

For example, there is absolutely no way to implement notifications on iOS without iOS support for web notifications, without that API there is no way to interface with the operating system. There is no way you can build workaround code for that.