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Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence
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. To find out, I needed data.
I had relatively broad exposure to the patterns of Apple's collaboration, having designed, advised on, or led teams that built dozens of features across disparate areas of the platform since the Blink fork. To check them, I used curl to fetch each of the 127 JSON files that are, apparently, the format for Safari's release notes, pretty-printed them with jq, then grepped case-insensitively for mention of “audio” and “midi”. Force web developers and other implementers to request “positions” at the end of the design process because Apple's disengagement makes it challenging to understand Cupertino's level of support (or antipathy).
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