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This is confusing to me as Chrome deprecated "apps" in 2020 (https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/moving-forward-from-chrome-apps.html https://blog.chromium.org/20
by turtlebits 3y ago
This is confusing to me as Chrome deprecated "apps" in 2020 (https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/moving-forward-from-chrome-apps.html https://blog.chromium.org/2020/01/moving-forward-from-chrome...) in favor of extensions, is this somehow different from the extension install experience?
- derefr 3y agoCorrection: Chrome deprecated Chrome Apps. Chrome Apps are not the same thing as Progressive Web Apps. Chrome Apps were a proprietary Chrome-specific thing — a special type of Chrome Extension, created and managed through the Chrome Web Store. Progressive Web Apps, meanwhile, are a set of open web standards, requiring no registration with any central authority; and have support in multiple browsers (e.g. when you "add an app to your Home Screen" from iOS Safari, that's also the PWA standards at work.) Chrome Apps were effectively obsoleted by the Progressive Web App standards. ...although, as it happens, Chrome reused a lot of the Chrome Apps business logic to implement its support of Progressive Web Apps. If you install e.g. this PWA demo app (https://www.khmyznikov.com/pwa-install/ https://www.khmyznikov.com/pwa-install/), you'll see that Chrome opens up its old "Chrome Apps" directory to dump a shortcut icon for the PWA in there.