Web Push for Safari

Re:Web Push for Safari by ben174 on Sunday June 12, 2022 @08:34PM (#31719664)

Reddit, for instance, should not be an app. It is failure on the browser's capabilities that you can't visit a reddit link without being spammed to death about installing their app. If the browser was capable of the things the reddit product team wanted to do, they wouldn't need to bug you to install their silly web wrapper app. The OS would be able to handle permissions gracefully, instead of letting the app have free reign.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by moistly on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:08AM (#31721425)

> If the browser was capable of the things the reddit product team wanted to do, they wouldn't need to bug you to install their silly web wrapper app.

I don’t want the things the developers want. Reddit’s mistake is thinking that I want anything more than headlines, thumbnails, and interstitial advertising.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by dmitriid on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:09AM (#31721429)

> If the browser was capable of the things the reddit product team wanted to do, they wouldn't need to bug you to install their silly web wrapper app.

Reddit is text with images. That is literally the core of what web is.

The only reason Reddit breaks their web version and pushes you towards the app is because Reddit wants to monetize the hell out of reddit, and doing that through the app is easier.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by Jcowell on Sunday June 12, 2022 @08:44PM (#31719734)

I disagree, Reddit does well as an app (I’m of the option that HackerNews is too , that’s why in use Octal). It’s just that Reddit has a really bad app.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by esprehn on Sunday June 12, 2022 @09:46PM (#31720085)

What capability/user experience does it gain by being an app?

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Re:Web Push for Safari by weikju on Sunday June 12, 2022 @10:52PM (#31720503)

it gains the ability to bypass ublock origin and other adblockers, for one. Not for benefit of the end users, but definitely Reddit gains from it.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by scarface74 on Monday June 13, 2022 @10:57AM (#31726497)

Or you could I don’t know, pay for it and remove ads…

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Re:Web Push for Safari by frosted-flakes on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:03PM (#31720570)

It loses the ability to open pages in new tabs.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by dijit on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:47AM (#31721662)

You can make a HTML link open in a new tab by adding the target=”_blank” attribute. You should insert this after the link address.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by ben174 on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:50AM (#31721678)

Your comment makes no sense in this context.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by dijit on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:49AM (#31722469)

Oh, I read it as "in the App a link can be opened in a new tab".

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Re:Web Push for Safari by anton96 on Monday June 13, 2022 @03:07AM (#31722209)

I think OP talked about the app.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by ben174 on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:47AM (#31721659)

Well, notifications, for one. Until this update which is not yet fully deployed and implemented.

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Re:Web Push for Safari by throwaway44432 on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:58AM (#31721345)

What specifically don't you like about Reddit app?

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