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Apple cites security concerns for killing PWAs in europe. I mean they could‘ve made changes to the system to allow running PWAs in other browser engines by offering an API in which other applications could hook themselves into, akin to how Android did it with the web activity that is used by other apps.
But then that would mean conceding to the EU and we can‘t have that, can we?
Can't harvest data from a PWA like you can an app.
For other people's benefit and my own:
PWA: Progressive Web App
I was wondering... passwords with attitude?
Mine are pretty sassy
um... what kind of person uses an acronym over and over through a long ass article without ever stating what the fuck that acronym stands for?
Its in the embedded tweet
Stands for progressive web app which is an app which uses web technologies. Can be both a web page and a mobile app on a phone. Can be added as an app to your phone through a browser rather than downloading it from an app store
And here was I thinking only Microsoft did that.
Can we kill locally running web apps from the AppStore next, please?
Things that run in a WebView?
Yes, electron-based stuff and the likes are a plague
agreed
Don't use them?
Hard to do when half the applications are built that way. Git GUIs, code/text editors, chat programs, even the next outlook is jumping on this stuff.
I get it that it’s faster to code like that and you basically get cross platform compatibility for free since you’re writing a website, but it’s a hog of resources that should have been stopped years ago.
Boo paywall
Freedium.cfd
EU users will be able to continue accessing websites directly from their Home Screen through a bookmark with minimal impact to their functionality.
We expect this change to affect a small number of users. Still, we regret any impact this change — that was made as part of the work to comply with the DMA — may have on developers of Home Screen web apps and our users.from: https://mashable.com/article/apple-kills-home-screen-web-apps-pwas-in-eu-dma
I understood it as a technical limitation imposed by the changes Europe are demanding. They now have to allow different browser engines, so they can't just use Safari under the hood for PWAs. They will need some UI and the technical underpinning to allow the browser engine to be selected.
They aren't killing PWAs. They're simply removing them from the home screen. Nothing about this will interfere with the ability to load and operate PWAs.
Except stuff like push notifications, that requires the pwa to be added to home screen.
Apple's implementation of other PWA standards requires an app to be opened from the home screen. A user can't access features of the app if they can't add it to the homescreen.
Yeah, ok. So now I have the ammunition to convince my friends to avoid apple. Thanks apple. :)
You think that's going to convince them? Plenty of people consider Apple as the second coming of the messiah. They would cheer if Apple dropped a bucket load of crap on their desk.
I agree that there are addicts and these need therapy indeed. I'm talking about the others. Those who actually think apple does a good job.
