Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by tata71 on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:36PM
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Supporting manifests to "install" a webapp to my home screen isn't something difficult for Apple/Safari team.
They just don't get their cut from it, so, not a priority.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by dmitriid on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:27AM
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According to web.dev, the Chrome propaganda site:
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Talking about mobile phones and tablets, a Progressive Web App is installable with offline capabilities using the following browsers and app stores:
- iOS and iPadOS
Safari (since iOS 11.3), AppStore (since iOS/iPadOS 14, with some limitations), Mobile Configuration for enterprise distribution.
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>the effect is that innovation is stifled.
There's no such thing as PWA. There are several dozen of standards, and any combination of them is called PWAs by various people. And quite a few of those combinations work perfectly fine on Apple devices.
What's worse is that too many of those standards are extremely badly designed (service workers) or are pure Chrome-only "standards" rammed through standards bodies (Bluetooth, HID etc.).