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Mobile websites can not send push notifications, use location information, receive iBeacon broadcasts, etc. To provide a state of the art user experience on mo
by stevewilhelm 13y ago
Mobile websites can not send push notifications, use location information, receive iBeacon broadcasts, etc.
To provide a state of the art user experience on mobile devices, you need to write an app.
- untog 13y agoThey can use location information. And gyroscope and accelerometer. The issue is that apps are diverting attention - otherwise mobile browsers might have implemented push notifications for pages by now. Firefox OS does it, and Safari on desktop has notifications. It's close, but no-one is shouting at the manufacturers to push it over the line.
- bennettfeely 13y agoHTML5 is catching up though, the Device orientation API, getUserMedia API, Notification API, etc. bring native app functionality to websites.
- untog 13y agoRight but what incentive does Apple have to implement that spec?
- bryanlarsen 13y agoPush notifications would be great. one example. Flowdock has a great web site that works great on mobile. Their Android app used to be a stinking POS. They then rewrote it to replace the Web View with native to get a different POS. If browsers just supported notifications I could use their web site rather than their app POS.