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"Chrome Apps"?? You mean the things they've been talking about deprecating since 2016? https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html https://
by duskwuff 6y ago
"Chrome Apps"??
You mean the things they've been talking about deprecating since 2016?
https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.html https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
- pjmlp 6y agoPWAs have replaced Chrome apps, hence why Microsoft and Google are making them as powerful as native apps, specially if packaged via the store, which even exposes native APIs as browser extensions.
- aitchnyu 6y agoCross platform "native APIs" I hope? Also whats "in it" for Google and Microsoft to promote PWAs, ie what would make them withdraw their support to PWAs?
- pjmlp 6y agoDepends, cross platform native like APIs are one thing. The other is when an application is packaged for the store, the native APIs are automatically made available, no need for you to manually write any FFI. This how it used to work for old Edge, and Edge Chromium might eventually get something similar. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-web-apps-edgehtml/windows-features https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive-... And on Android, https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activity https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi...