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PWA - progressive web app, delivered via the web, html, CSS, JavaScript, etc.

• gambiting 3y ago
  Thank you! I hate when articles use acronyms and never actually expand what they mean - I read the entire article without any clue what PWAs actually are.
  • verisimi 3y ago
    I know - I'm not in that area and got quite a way through before realising I had to look it up!
  • npteljes 3y ago
    I agree, it's a bad writing practice. And it's very simple to be completely unambiguous - just use the complete phrase the first time. So in this case, the tagline could just be "Decoding Apple's Desperate Ploy To Scuttle Progressive Web Applications", and then, if people see PWA, they can decipher it themselves. But of course this seems to be a personal blog, so much of it is up to personal taste, as it should be.
    • verisimi 3y ago
      I totally agree. For this person, it's surely obvious. They probably didn't expect this to become a popular read on HN. Do you remember when ai used to stand for 'artificial insemination'? Lol.