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I consider this a feature: the older code has known behaviour, while a from-scratch implementation would have been a minefield of unknown bugs



I’m not buying your reasoning. Try putting a WKWebView into a SwiftUI view. This kind of thing is all sorts of messed up when multiple rendering systems - two of them declarative (SwiftUI and HTML) - collide in a single view. I’m sure someone’s going to call this a corner case, but useful and interesting apps that push the boundaries of the feasible are all composed of such “corner cases”. And hey, I’m not even doing anything outlandish: just trying to show some HTML.


I sympathize with your position and have had similar problems in the past. There’s no magic option. But typically the combination of a completely new API and implementation is very difficult for both implementors and users.




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