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A comment on Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detr... by SirHound on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:11AM (#14864877)
> I have yet to find a "web app" that I delight in using, though I love many web sites and native apps.

I wonder how much of that is an intrinsic problem with web apps conceptually, or a result of the various limitations and design fuck-ups of the browser vendors.

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Re:Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detr... by tazjin on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:16AM (#14864916)
The fuck-ups aren't just on the browser vendor site.

The entire front-end ecosystem is currently worse than enterprise Java at its peak and the quality issues stem from all sides.

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Re:Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detr... by interpol_p on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:17AM (#14864931)
The best web app I use daily is Slack (wrapped in its native app "shell" on macOS). But it still feels pretty poor.

On iPad it's worse. On iPhone strangely, it's not too bad.

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Re:Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detr... by fredsir on Friday July 28, 2017 @02:06AM (#14872323)
If slack is the best, it really goes to show why nobody should be making non-native apps. Slacks Mac client (and their iOS client) is really, really bad.
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