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Yeah, on first load they load... like a web page. Because they are a web page. "Grey rectangle city" is not something a progressive web app does unless the crea
by untog 8y ago
Yeah, on first load they load... like a web page. Because they are a web page. "Grey rectangle city" is not something a progressive web app does unless the creator of the app tells it to. Like I said, it sounds like the complaint is with single page apps, not with progressive web apps.
I guess I'm not sure what the preferred alternative is here? First load of a native app involves going to an app store and downloading a multi-megabyte app. A PWA involves loading a normal web site, then once it has loaded, cache resources to allow instant loading in the future. I know which one of those two I'd prefer.
- ziont 8y ago> First load of a native app involves going to an app store and downloading a multi-megabyte app whats wrong with that? > A PWA involves loading a normal web site, then once it has loaded, cache resources to allow instant loading in the future. yes, ONCE it has loaded. But the first experience is always going to inferior to installing apps through Google or Apple store. ex) SHOW HN: Send AI painting of your selfies PWA! reply dang 1 hour ago | on: ShOW HN: Send AI.pwa so we are supposed to trust you with our selfies? who are you again? certainly not Google. no thanks bye turd 4 hour ago | on : Show HN: Send ai.pwa I went to the URL and it asked for notification and added to my home screen. Oh not to mention it took a whole 5 seconds to load on my shit Canadian 4g LTE. Now it's draining my battery life and I have 20 tabs open in Chrome. Flag this shit. OP 3 minutes ago lol stfu mang, im move to thailand with my ladyboy gf.
- untog 8y agoYou seriously think going to an App Store, searching for an app, waiting for it to download 10s of megabytes (potentially over a slow connection), and then opening the app is a better experience than opening a web page? I have no idea what your quoted passage is, by the way. If one of the complaints in there is "it took a whole 5 seconds to download", how on earth is the App Store alternative better? There's literally zero chance of getting an App Store app downloaded and opened in 5 seconds.
- freehunter 8y agoAre you just tempting the moderators here by using their names in highly offensive fake comments?
- darkpuma 8y agoCheck the profile. Maybe it's malice, but I think they have some problems..