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More context: "Progressive Web Apps" means Chrome-only at this point. The framing of this discussion in terms of "Open Web Standards" vs "Apple's walled garden
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
More context:
"Progressive Web Apps" means Chrome-only at this point. The framing of this discussion in terms of "Open Web Standards" vs "Apple's walled garden" is just hiding the fact that's Google who're paying the bills and calling the shots on the web "platform".
Sent from my notebook running Chromium (for webapps) alongside with FF for the extant web such as HN.
- cerved 6y agoHow exactly do you mean it's "Chrome only"?
- tannhaeuser 6y agoStuff only works on Chrome/Chromium if at all.
- DocTomoe 6y agoAs a Firefox user: I cannot confirm this. Which PWAs are you using?
- coldtea 6y agoIn that Chrome dictates future web standards, rushes ahead to implement whatever they want, and FF/Safari lag behind, to the point that some web apps will even say "runs on Chrome" only...
- vbezhenar 6y agoSafari supports PWA.
- formerly_proven 6y agoThis is a statement with ill-defined semantics, because there is no such thing as a "PWA standard". "Supports PWA" means, in practice, that it supports whatever new API or feature Chrome introduced five days ago.
- throwaway3699 6y agoTechnically so does every browser. It's why it's a bit of a pointless term.
- t0mas88 6y agoI'm on iOS now and have a few web apps installed as apps on the home screen the same as what I had on my previous Android phone. No difference for me as a user between the two. Both hide the browser UI and add some functions that a normal website doesn't seem to be able to access.