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I was thinking exactly the same. And if you “add to Home Screen” on iOS you even just get a tile.

The only thing I haven’t figured out yet is that sometimes opening sites which are added to Home Screen yields a dedicated browser and sometimes it just opens a new tab in safari. This happens to hacker news as well resulting in having many open tabs at the end of the day.

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Only progressive web apps are added to the homescreen as a dedicated tile: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/

I’m not sure where you’re getting that from. On iOS you can add any webpage as a dedicated tile.

Yes, but pwa's open in a standalone browser, and everything else just opens a new tab. Ich

Is there a way to force this standalone browser behaviour for non PWA?

Yes it’s a meta tag:

Ok. So then I would need to proxy hacker news and mitm with my own certs and add the header or ask dang to get that tag added. Not sure which one is more feasible.

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