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Isn't the idea of PWAs that you aren't doing it through Chrome, or not knowingly. You're just running an app, and Chrome (or Blink) is a library that the app ca

• palata 3y ago
  > or not knowingly That's a big difference. What if I sold you a Linux computer that was actually running Windows with a UI that looks like Linux?
  • robertlagrant 3y ago
    It feels like too complex an example that would need to be constrained in various ways to make it apply. Simpler example: if you've used an Electron app e.g. VSCode, you've used Chrome under the hood.
    • palata 3y ago
      Yeah, I refuse to use VScode because it's ElectronJS. I have colleagues who now find it super cool to use it from GitHub, I don't understand. I use the JetBrains IDEs, made for the JVM.
      • robertlagrant 3y ago
        ...okay, but in the context of: > The "extinguish" is what happens after a substantial portion of the web is only accessible through Chrome. At some point it no longer makes sense to use a different web browser, and when we reach that point the open web is gone. I'm saying how a PWA approach doesn't make people switch web browser, when they don't know it happens to be a Chrome library rendering their PWA?