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


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.



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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