Re:In Defense of the Modern Web
by Spivak on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:57PM
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* The trade-off is that they're alien to the platform either behave entirely different or at worst poorly emulate platform semantics.
* this is true-ish. It's not that they can't it's that they aren't. If Apple or Google just up and blocked a site in Safari or Chrome it's basically dead. "Technically accessible in Firefox" isn't exactly a selling point. You're also gate-kept by your ability to get a public cert.
* True but download size only really matters on first install. It's absolutely friction but not really something that I've ever seen people care about anymore. Pictures take up almost all of the storage on people's phones now.
* True but the trade-off there is that you have to download it every time. Native apps win in the long run if you use it often.
* Users have never cared about this. This is only a benefit to the very techy.
* this is true-ish. It's not that they can't it's that they aren't. If Apple or Google just up and blocked a site in Safari or Chrome it's basically dead. "Technically accessible in Firefox" isn't exactly a selling point. You're also gate-kept by your ability to get a public cert.
* True but download size only really matters on first install. It's absolutely friction but not really something that I've ever seen people care about anymore. Pictures take up almost all of the storage on people's phones now.
* True but the trade-off there is that you have to download it every time. Native apps win in the long run if you use it often.
* Users have never cared about this. This is only a benefit to the very techy.