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React was open sourced in 2013. Service workers, which I consider to be essential to what we understand as PWAs, shipped first in Chrome in 2015, Safari in 2018
by crabmusket 3mo ago
React was open sourced in 2013. Service workers, which I consider to be essential to what we understand as PWAs, shipped first in Chrome in 2015, Safari in 2018.
- jorisw 3mo agoSure. But Jobs was talking about running 'web apps' on iPhone OS as a software distribution channel, pre App Store, 2007-2008.
- jazzypants 3mo agoI completely understand the confusion, but "Progressive Web App" or PWA[1], coined by Alex Russell and Frances Berriman[2], has become a specific term for websites that work normally on a pc but can also take advantage of things like push notifications and be installed on the home screen of a phone. You can see a measurable uptick on Google Trends after this blogpost [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app [2] https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/ https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t... [3] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11bzxympx6,pwa&date=all&geo=US&legacy&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11bzxympx6...
- SquareWheel 3mo agoIf anyone wishes to remember what that looked like. https://web.archive.org/web/20071012231544/http://www.apple.com/webapps/whatarewebapps.html https://web.archive.org/web/20071012231544/http://www.apple.... https://web.archive.org/web/20071012025941/http://www.apple.com/webapps/ https://web.archive.org/web/20071012025941/http://www.apple....