What PWA Can Do Today

Re:What PWA Can Do Today by mvdtnz on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:53PM (#38915554)

I tried two of the features at random (face detection and vibration). Face detection told me my device wasn't supported, and vibration just straight up didn't work. Then I tried to back out of the website and it wouldn't let me.

I'm on Android Firefox.

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Re:What PWA Can Do Today by TulliusCicero on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:52PM (#38917927)

This is what happens for a lot of "this is just as good!" type features in any domain.

Many advocates will tell you the thing is just as good, or at least more than good enough, and will deliberately avoid telling you about the many pitfalls and not-so-edge cases that they are very much aware of.

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Re:What PWA Can Do Today by matt-tingen on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:29PM (#38916834)

Unfortunately, feature detection indicates that Firefox on Android supports vibration, but it doesn't currently work.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653318

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Re:What PWA Can Do Today by mvdtnz on Monday January 08, 2024 @04:15PM (#38918234)

Par for the course on Firefox I'm afraid. Every time I give it a chance it lets me down.

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Re:What PWA Can Do Today by majesticmerc on Monday January 08, 2024 @01:58PM (#38916456)

Same experience for me on Android Firefox. Couldn't return to HN via the back button, and most of the features were either "not supported" or just didn't work (e.g. Vibration)

Seems that either the author is only working in Chrome (which is probably reasonable for a prototype or whatever) or Firefox is lacking many of these features.

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Re:What PWA Can Do Today by account-5 on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:59PM (#38915649)

I thought it was just me because I'm using uBlock. But even with the site first party scripts and line allowed it didn't work.

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