Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by t0mas88 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:47AM
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I'm on iOS now and have a few web apps installed as apps on the home screen the same as what I had on my previous Android phone. No difference for me as a user between the two. Both hide the browser UI and add some functions that a normal website doesn't seem to be able to access.
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by cerved on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:45AM
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How exactly do you mean it's "Chrome only"?
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by coldtea on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:10AM
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In that Chrome dictates future web standards, rushes ahead to implement whatever they want, and FF/Safari lag behind, to the point that some web apps will even say "runs on Chrome" only...
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by tannhaeuser on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:53AM
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Stuff only works on Chrome/Chromium if at all.
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by DocTomoe on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:09AM
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As a Firefox user: I cannot confirm this. Which PWAs are you using?
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by vbezhenar on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:47AM
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Safari supports PWA.
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by formerly_proven on Thursday May 06, 2021 @03:50AM
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This is a statement with ill-defined semantics, because there is no such thing as a "PWA standard". "Supports PWA" means, in practice, that it supports whatever new API or feature Chrome introduced five days ago.
Re:Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”
by throwaway3699 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:02AM
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Technically so does every browser. It's why it's a bit of a pointless term.
"Progressive Web Apps" means Chrome-only at this point. The framing of this discussion in terms of "Open Web Standards" vs "Apple's walled garden" is just hiding the fact that's Google who're paying the bills and calling the shots on the web "platform".
Sent from my notebook running Chromium (for webapps) alongside with FF for the extant web such as HN.