Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund

Oh... could you elaborate?

That being said, I saw two approaches to this -- negative, when people get some kind of a tool and change things until the tool stops showing warning and positive, where accessibility is another part of UX and has to be designed with positive checks on what actually works.

I sincerely hope that the team behind it is doing it the second way, but I'm not in their heads and don't know whether this text war written as part of government relations to get the moneys or they actually believe it. It's customary to praise Communist party, God allmighty without meaning any of it in some places too.

No, we don't know. You are projecting and again - spreading FUT.

Did you do anything towards implemeting the specs on other platforms? Or are you only very vocal online complaining?

In that repo they clearely stated, that they focus on Android/iOS as it's the most popular platform (contrary to what the IT bubble here may think) and want to reach the most user with the (initial) implementation.

> The EU forced Apple to open NFC for third party payments, which is great. But all the banks in the Netherlands only have working card payments in Apple and Google Wallet. Including the largest bank (ING), that used to have independent in-app NFC payment on Android (where NFC was always open) but seems to have capitulated and now only offers it via Google Wallet.

OK, again - you are projecting Netherlands issues over the UE. Surprisingly - in Poland I can pay with ING bank with NFC. Same in Spain with BBVA app.

Just because something is broken in your corner of the universe doesn't mean it's the global fenomena :)

Also - instead of complaining about the EU - maybe try persuaiding the entities to add support?

Alas - I'm pondering ECI initiative to actually force "Open Android" (ie. withou Google Services being required) as a valid platform because I was fed up with Google imposing more and more overreach. Android is quite OK if it werent for the walled garden from google…

At some point, it’s legitimate that innovations are developed for platform that people actually use. It’s good to be practical before being political sometimes.

Google could do pretty much anything with the platform if it were not for Apple and iOS. And that's a big if because if they align on something it will get to the platform.

Firefox unfortunately seems to be infected by Silicon Valley people that seem to be quite obedient to the status quo.

Ladybird is at least developed by people from all around the world.