Remember when progressive web apps were gonna be the next big thing? KaiOS remembers.
PWAs are still a thing, we’re just waiting for Apple to open the walled garden.
I’m excited for PWAs personally as this will allow everyday apps to run on devices not running Android or iOS, like Linux phones.
I’m confused about where development of PWAs is even going. Between the two and a half big browsers, only Chrome/Android seem to be adopting them seriously, I’ve seen people complain about Firefox not doing a great job, and I have no idea about Safari (but on iOS, I can see why Apple would have a huge incentive to prevent people from bypassing their Developer account fees)…
Yeah I’m low key mad that Firefox is not taking PWAs seriously when it has the potential to open up app development to be cross-platform by default.
I know Epiphany is working on PWA support.
They’re still a thing. If your work uses Google Chat instead of Slack / Teams the only way to install an app version is as a PWA. A company I recently worked for just got most people to use the Outlook PWA instead of the traditional desktop client, and I frequently use Spotify and Soundcloud’s PWAs. One of the more popular backend API testing apps is hopscotch which is entirely a PWA.
They’d be a lot more of them if iPhone supported the technology better.
I say that a someone who’s pitched Paws to companies, but since many of the managers and owners seem to be in on the Apple ecosystem, demos often aren’t that impressive. Having to answer “kinda” to can they do x questions doesn’t go down well.
Notification support for PWAs on iOS should come soon and that’s far and away the biggest showstopper rn.
I’m using the Kbin pwa on an iPhone and it works much better than I expected it to, I don’t know they must have better support now. I think the functionality should be more than enough for many companies and much cheaper than a custom native app
I’m right now browsing the fediverse and writing this from the Kbin pwa. It seems to work quite well, with some quirks that I guess could be polished, but overall better experience than most installed apps that should be a website instead
