Move on folks, nothing more to see here. PWAs are just another Google side project, talking about them in 2024 is like still being hung up on a chat app Google killed years ago or being that guy who did his whole house up in Material Design.
It's a good idea and frankly superior to the current Store+PhoneApp approach to making stateful apps that can run on mobile devices. Contributing helps. Being sour, not so much.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/progressive...
Firefox supports both add to home screen and push notifications.
Or by “add to home screen”, are you specifically referring to BeforeInstallPromptEvent / prompt()? That isn’t a web standard. It’s something Google alone have implemented, it’s a Chrome-only feature. Firefox hasn’t implemented it either.
> Status of This Document
> This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track.
PWAs would also open the doors to new mobile OSs beyond Google or apple control.
I don't know... laws?
> PWAs would also open the doors to new mobile OSs beyond Google or apple control.
Or force everyone into ChromeOS once and for all.
Maybe. I am not impressed so far, though.
>Or force everyone into ChromeOS once and for all.
I don't see that happening on iOS.
How does that work?
It's the "progressive" part I have a problem with. Web apps revolutionized our idea of what an application can do; everything in PWA makes web applications worse, not better.
Just to take a simple example, when I want to visit Hacker news I just type n in the address bar of my iPad and click on the auto-suggest result and I am there.
If I had an app for it, it would compete with all the other apps that have a burnt umber orange icon or that have an "H", an "N" or a "Y" as their own logo. (McDonald's might be the only brand that can pull that off) If I had an app for that I'd also be installing lots of other apps and have 4 or 5 pages of them to scroll through. If anything, brands should be asking for ways to make installed apps as easy to find as uninstalled web pages are.
(Note all the things I complained about originally except the lack of a reliable storage facility, are problems with apps. What makes it a 'side project' is that PWA advocates keep denying that "it just doesn't work" and then act incredulous that nobody wants to waste time with them.)
If anything, most app authors should just quit drinking the Kool-Aid and just make plain ordinary web applications without any of the PWA power-downs. It's like playing a Mario game and finding some mushroom that makes you smaller without any benefit (like being able to go in some hole.)