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Is Apple trying to kill PWAs?
- dang 7y agoPrevious thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22686602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22686602 Edit: it looks like this article's main point was discussed pretty extensively in the previous thread, including at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688294.
- connorgutman 7y agoYes.
- hotgeart 7y agoStill waiting for web push notifications.... I rly hate apple.
- neurobashing 7y agoThey do stuff like this not because they want to kill the web, but because Apple will always do what it thinks is in the best interests of the company and its customers. (Who comes first seems to depend on what the technology in question is.) In the case of WebKit, it's clear they see these "privacy-enhancing" features as a benefit to both, and so they go all-in. Like removing the floppy drives. Lots of people had good use cases for them but they believed it was the best move for everyone in the long term.
- p2detar 7y agoWow, this was the ELI5 article that worked for me. Now I finally get it for the context of homescreen apps.
- speg 7y agoI still don't get homescreen apps. When I put a bookmark on my home screen, it just open safari to that page. It's not it's own app, all the other tabs are still there. /confused
- Nextgrid 7y agoYou need to put special markup in your HTML (and maybe some specific JS) for it to behave like an app and hide the tab bar.
- p2detar 7y agoIt depends on how the app is written I guess. For example, make a bookmark of this demo PWA app on your homescreen https://airhorner.com https://airhorner.com. Notice that it opens itself in a full screen mode, no safari controls are shown.
- speg 7y agoThanks! that's neat. I found this: > Set the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag to yes to turn on standalone mode. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
- vidugavia 7y agoIt still kills tools like Twine in browser though: https://www.reddit.com/r/twinegames/comments/fp1ro2/ios_users_stop_using_twine_2x_online_version/ https://www.reddit.com/r/twinegames/comments/fp1ro2/ios_user...