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Alex Moore retweeted
10 Oct 2025
Last week, OWA spoke at the šŖšŗEU Parliamentās Digital Markets Act Working Group on Appleās ongoing non-compliance with the DMA and why the open web is vital for Europeās digital future.
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Alex Moore retweeted
13 May 2025
Alex Moore from Open Web Advocacy joins Joe on Late Night Linux to unpack the DOJās case against Google, whatās promising, whatās risky, and why protecting web and platform funding is critical for the open internet.
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Alex Moore retweeted
31 Mar 2025
Silk relies heavily on web APIs, like Scroll snap and WAAPI. While building it, I also took care to anticipate new ones, like the Scroll-driven animations API.
For each feature, I reviewed and experimented with the existing APIs to see how well they fit. I also had a look at upcoming ones, and sometimes took part in the conversation to try and improve them before they shippedālike I just did with the interactivity CSS property.
Every time, I tried several solutions, sometimes deciding to go with web APIs, sometimes holding off because I realised they were not yet ready, like <dialog>. I considered performance, accessibility and flexibility to arrive at a solution that enabled the use cases I wanted Silk to cover.
Silk isnāt just about appearanceāit's unstyled by default. Its design is the result a lot of thoughtful work and experience with the web, aiming to be flexible, robust, and long-lasting. As new web APIs become viable, Silk will continue to evolve to make the most of them.
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Alex Moore retweeted
25 Mar 2025
Introducing Silk ā The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web.
Native-like experience ā¢ Works on all devices ā¢ Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web.
Available for React.
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Amazing library. More so if youāve ever tried to do something similar yourself
25 Mar 2025
Introducing Silk ā The most advanced swipeable sheet ever engineered for the web.
Native-like experience ā¢ Works on all devices ā¢ Unlocks dozens of UI patterns on the web.
Available for React.
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šļøNew Episode of Igalia Chats
@briankardell and @meyerweb chat with @OpenWebAdvocacy's @mtomweb about the Google Antitrust case in the US and proposed remedies.
igalia.com/chats/alex-owa-reā¦
ALT A title card saying "The Google Antitrust Ruling - featuring Alex Moore", with a circle cropped photo of Alex and 'soundwaves' emanating from it
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Alex Moore retweeted
24 Nov 2024
šThe @CMAgovUK appears to formally agree to phase-out third-party cookies from Chrome web browsers (seen as 'reasonable'). On Apple's iOS/iPhone/iPads. Great day for competition and privacy! assets.publishing.service.goā¦
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10 May 2024
My only thoughts are, props to the engineer who decided to make secondary automatic backupsā¦ most smaller companies would have lost everything š
10 May 2024
Google Cloud accidentally deleted a company's entire cloud environment (Unisuper, an investment company, which manages $80B). The company had backups in another region, but GCP deleted those too. Luckily, they had yet more backups on another provider.
theguardian.com/australia-neā¦
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Alex Moore retweeted
26 Mar 2024
In military terms the EU Commission's launch of five DMA breach investigations (shortly after the DMA became enforceable) would be described as a "shock-and-awe strategy.*
But some of the issues are small, such as the iOS browser choice screen. Maybe they'll get to bigger stuff.
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Alex Moore retweeted
15 Mar 2024
"if you buy a microwave, you don't think it's okay if you can only heat up dishes that are permitted by the manufacturer and on which they earn 30%."
Great insights from @mtomweb and the @OpenWebAdvocacy on @JSPartyFM
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Alex Moore retweeted
15 Mar 2024
We sat down with @JSPartyFM for 2 hours to talk about the history of OWA, the Digital Markets Act, Apple's attempt to kill web apps & the fight for the future of the web! š
Join us for our deepest dive yet:
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Alex Moore retweeted
12 Mar 2024
Apple has caved yet again in the EU, this time for direct download. Browsers need both be allowed to offer direct download and control the update mechanism without scare screens.
Another DMA win!
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Alex Moore retweeted
7 Mar 2024
IT'S DMA DAY! šŖšŗ ššš
The EU's Digital Markets Act is now in force and to celebrate we're doing a deep dive into what's going to happen next.
Follow the link in the first reply:
ALT ITāS DMA DAY! Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, TikTok & Amazon are now subject to the EUās Digital Markets Act. What happens now? OWA deep dive (Learn more)
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Alex Moore retweeted
21 Feb 2024
Apple will break Web Apps (PWAs) in the EU within the next week ā¼ļø
In order to stop them, we need evidence from you that the harm they are choosing to inflict on EU businesses and consumers is real and significant.
šš Please fill in our NEW more detailed survey! (below)
ALT URGENT: Apple to break Web Apps within a week. Critical Data needed from you. Help Us fight back (learn more with down arrows) OWA logo in bottom right
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Alex Moore retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Apple is Trying to Kill the Open Internet! - Confused about what's at stake? This video is a summary of the entire situation in 10 minutes.
youtube.com/watch?v=up-zUEFNā¦
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Alex Moore retweeted
15 Feb 2024
Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ā¼ļø
š Read the blog, fill the survey, join the fight!
ALT OWA Logo and open-web-advocacy.org with the text: Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within 20 days No Fix: Beta 1, Beta 2, Beta 3 New UI indicates deliberate choice Nothing in release notes No mention in compliance proposal No response to bug tickets No response from Apple NOT required by the DMA š Read more, OWA blog link below
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Alex Moore retweeted
16 Jan 2024
A quick summary of glaring problems we've found so far:
1) Apple has introduced an anticompetitive new 27% tax on web purchases. Apple has never done this before, and it kills price competition. Developers can't offer digital items more cheaply on the web after paying a third-party payment processor 3-6% and paying this new 27% Apple Tax.
2) Apple dictates all aspects of these links and doesn't allow them in the app's ordinary payment flow. Rather, links must be separated out into a different section of the app, away from places where users actually buy stuff.
3) Apple requires developers to open a generic web browser session, forcing the user to log in to the developer's web site again, to make a purchase. And because of #2, users will have to search all over again for the digital item they wanted to buy.
4) Apple will front-run competing payment processors with their own "scare screen" to disadvantage them.
Epic will contest Apple's bad-faith compliance plan in District Court.
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Alex Moore retweeted
19 Dec 2023
UK browser investigation to restart Jan 24 after Apple failed to appeal to the supreme court!
Perhaps Apple realised that the negative news generated by a supreme court case would harm their brand and further thrust their anti-competitive behaviour into the global spotlight.
ALT 18 December 2023: the deadline for Apple to seek the Court of Appealās permission to appeal the Courtās decision has now lapsed, therefore in accordance with the Courtās order dated 30 November 2023, the market investigation will recommence on 24 January 2023. Further updates will follow in due course. ā Competition and Markets Authority
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Alex Moore retweeted
22 Nov 2023
Apple is attempting to escape the obligations of the Digital Markets Act for iPad.
In our submission to the EU we outline why that would be a terrible outcome for both consumers and the Web.
It is critical that the Web be allowed to compete fairly and equally on every device.
ALT It is critical that iPadOS be designated a gatekeeper. Allowing Apple to ignore all of the DMA obligations for such a significant segment of its ecosystem, will allow Apple great power to not only increase lock-in, reduce interoperability and hobble competition on iPad but also to curtail the effectiveness of the DMA with regards to Appleās obligations on iPhone. - Open Web Advocacy
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