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I think Apple needs to get back on the web app train and make iOS Safari more useable for people to do things in safari and not have to create a native applicat

by hk1337 4y ago

I think Apple needs to get back on the web app train and make iOS Safari more useable for people to do things in safari and not have to create a native application.

EGreg 4y ago
Notifications are coming in 2023 And contactpicker is behind an experimental flag. When are they launching it?? What more do you want :)
- leesalminen 4y ago
  WebNFC, for one.
- hk1337 4y ago
  Honestly, the big thing I think is just keeping step with standardizations. Google tends to do the same thing with Chrome or perhaps it's that frontend developers tend to implement Chrome experimental features a lot. It would be great to deploy a simple site or PWA without a lot of catches where "if it's this browser do X or if it's another do Y.
bob1029 4y ago
> make iOS Safari more useable I'd argue it's really good in 2022. We only distribute our software as a web app these days. Many of our customers exclusively use iOS Safari to access it. We even got the PWA stuff working reliably. Our web app runs full-screen on iOS devices and is launched from an icon on the home screen. For most users, there is absolutely zero difference between this and a native iOS app experience.
- mysterydip 4y ago
  Do you have a set of guidelines or boilerplate css/js to do this? I want to do the same but the solutions I've seen online and tried have been a mixed bag.
  - bob1029 4y ago
    I used the Starbucks PWA as a guideline for all the meta tag crap: https://app.starbucks.com https://app.starbucks.com
- ntr-- 4y ago
  I did this some years ago for a game and at that time many APIs were completely broken, the most important one being push notifications. Has that changed now in your experience?
- hk1337 4y ago
  That's good. I know there's been a lot of improvements on macOS but I wasn't sure about iOS or even PWAs on iOS.

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I think Apple needs to get back on the web app train and make iOS Safari more useable for people to do things in safari and not have to create a native applicat

by hk1337 4y ago

I think Apple needs to get back on the web app train and make iOS Safari more useable for people to do things in safari and not have to create a native application.

EGreg 4y ago
Notifications are coming in 2023 And contactpicker is behind an experimental flag. When are they launching it?? What more do you want :)
- leesalminen 4y ago
  WebNFC, for one.
- hk1337 4y ago
  Honestly, the big thing I think is just keeping step with standardizations. Google tends to do the same thing with Chrome or perhaps it's that frontend developers tend to implement Chrome experimental features a lot. It would be great to deploy a simple site or PWA without a lot of catches where "if it's this browser do X or if it's another do Y.
bob1029 4y ago
> make iOS Safari more useable I'd argue it's really good in 2022. We only distribute our software as a web app these days. Many of our customers exclusively use iOS Safari to access it. We even got the PWA stuff working reliably. Our web app runs full-screen on iOS devices and is launched from an icon on the home screen. For most users, there is absolutely zero difference between this and a native iOS app experience.
- mysterydip 4y ago
  Do you have a set of guidelines or boilerplate css/js to do this? I want to do the same but the solutions I've seen online and tried have been a mixed bag.
  - bob1029 4y ago
    I used the Starbucks PWA as a guideline for all the meta tag crap: https://app.starbucks.com https://app.starbucks.com
- ntr-- 4y ago
  I did this some years ago for a game and at that time many APIs were completely broken, the most important one being push notifications. Has that changed now in your experience?
- hk1337 4y ago
  That's good. I know there's been a lot of improvements on macOS but I wasn't sure about iOS or even PWAs on iOS.