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I was thinking exactly the same. And if you “add to Home Screen” on iOS you even just get a tile. The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is that sometimes op
by spockz 6y ago
I was thinking exactly the same. And if you “add to Home Screen” on iOS you even just get a tile.
The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is that sometimes opening sites which are added to Home Screen yields a dedicated browser and sometimes it just opens a new tab in safari. This happens to hacker news as well resulting in having many open tabs at the end of the day.
- zeusly 6y agoOnly progressive web apps are added to the homescreen as a dedicated tile: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/ https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/
- sanedigital 6y agoI’m not sure where you’re getting that from. On iOS you can add any webpage as a dedicated tile.
- Version467 6y agoYes, but pwa's open in a standalone browser, and everything else just opens a new tab. Ich
- spockz 6y agoIs there a way to force this standalone browser behaviour for non PWA?
- atestu 6y agoYes it’s a meta tag: <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"> more info: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap...
- spockz 6y agoOk. So then I would need to proxy hacker news and mitm with my own certs and add the header or ask dang to get that tag added. Not sure which one is more feasible.