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Sorry, I wrote this blog post too fast because I was/am a bit angry and didn't notice my usage of jargon without explanation. It is a “Progressive Web App”. So
by soapdog 7y ago
Sorry, I wrote this blog post too fast because I was/am a bit angry and didn't notice my usage of jargon without explanation.
It is a “Progressive Web App”. Sorry for the jargon usage without explanation. Basically it is a marketing term used to place some new web APIs and best practices into an umbrella of a “near native UX on a Web App”. What it usually means is that your application is:
* Served from a secure context (a requirement for the other APIs anyway).
* Has an application manifest (this contains metadata about your web app and is used by browsers and OSs to add icons, names, themes, etc)
* Has a service worker (which enables your application to potentially work offline beyond what other cache solutions did in the past)
So with these in place, browsers can offer a “Install this site and an app” feature which allows the site to open in its own window, with its own icon and name on the launchers and home screens.
- rconti 7y agoThanks for your reply :) I recognize often articles are meant for a specialized audience and shared here without the author even being aware of the site, so it's unreasonable to expect that everything be described to a total neophyte, but sometimes I have to laugh at the buzzword articles that get posted here about how to implement foo in bar on baz, using a fizzbuzz framework running blarg, and I have no idea what ANY of those things are, having worked in tech for decades :D