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Ask HN: macOS Safari Support for PWAs?
Does anyone know if MacOS Safari supports or is planning to support PWA "Add to Homescreen" behavior like iOS Safari?
- phillipseamore 6y agoWouldn't expect much from Apple. The App Clips they announced today would have been perfect candidates for PWA's but instead they are going in the direction of mini-apps. That very well reflects their lack of interest in PWA.
- pspeter3 6y agoAndroid supports a version of App Clips (Instant Apps) and PWAs. I'm not sure they're mutually exclusive, especially since iOS already supports PWAs.
- phillipseamore 6y agoThere is a huge gap between iOS and Android with regards to what's supported for PWAs.
- maxharris 6y agoI did web development for a few years, and I think that technology is approaching the end of its lifespan. Google did Flutter, and in the last couple of months I've been learning Swift and SwiftUI instead. I think one of the reasons web apps were so popular is that competing platforms didn't have declarative layout, installation was difficult, and programming in C++ or Java is harder than Swift or Javascript. In each of those areas, Apple now has a good-enough story (SwiftUI, App Store, Swift), and I think there's no reason for me to bother with web apps anymore.