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'Apple's Refusal To Support Progressive Web Apps is a Detriment To Future of the Web' (medium.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what's-happening dept.

From a blog post: Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are one of the most exciting and innovative things happening in web development right now. PWAs enable you to use JavaScript to create a "Service Worker", which gives you all sorts of great features that you'd normally associate with native apps, like push notifications, offline support, and app loading screens -- but on the web! Awesome. Except for is one major problem -- While Google has embraced the technology and added support for it in Chrome for Android, Apple has abstained from adding support to mobile Safari. All they've done is say that it is "Under Consideration." Seemingly no discussion about it whatsoever.

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  1. Loading screens. by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's 2017 and programs still have a "loading screen".

    Idiots, all of you.

  2. Re:Not a detriment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does not matter. The default is 'on' and many people, especially younger, do not turn it off.
    Default settings and user indifference is not the same as 'customers really want & enjoy constant notifications'.

    This 'feature' is for the developers' benefit, not the users. This about an actual book. Does it fly off the shelf into your face & demand to be read? WHy not come to it when you want? Why not open ANY app when you want? When you're thinking of it on your own volition & interest?

  3. Re:And who wants this? by doconnor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My website does bus arrival predictions, so it would be useful to have notifications so I could tell the user when their bus is about to arrive.

    I block a lot of my apps from doing notifications, but there are still lots of situations where notifications are useful.

  4. Apple's Right to be Cautious by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This sounds to me like the latest exploit-vector.

    I DO NOT WANT "worker processes" being shoved onto my computer, regardless of Sandboxing.

    Just wait. There WILL be an exploit or hundred that use this.

    And I will sit back and laugh.