ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes

Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by philote on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:34AM (#37307676)

For those more knowledgeable than me, why use something like this over making your web app into a PWA?

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Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by devmor on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:52AM (#37307972)

Most people don't know PWAs exist due to poor platform support/advertisement.

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Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by philote on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:08AM (#37308188)

What do you mean by poor platform support?

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Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by lefixx on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:59AM (#37308912)

Mozilla prism has been discontinued. Firefox first removed the feature by default and then removed it completely. IOS-add-to-home-screen always sucked.

We deserve a better SSB implementation. Stuff like 1-click-install would be dead simple if a browser would do it properly. Notifications, multiple instances, extensions and without the overhead from atom or toDesktop or whatever.

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Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by jillesvangurp on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:57AM (#37308033)

The installation experience for PWAs is still pretty poor. I've seen very few good examples of PWAs (probably because of this). And I've even bothered implementing a few. My conclusion after doing that: waste of time, users mostly ignore PWAs.

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Re:ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes by philote on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @10:06AM (#37308167)

I thought you could publish them on app stores. What makes the installation process poor?

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