I've been wondering if we'll see a number of 3rd-party PWA site wrapper apps for visionOS at launch. Where you can create a rich bookmark for various websites to more easily separate their windows and use them.
I explored this briefly for Widgetsmith but since it would require making the app 17+ (unrestricted web access) and I suspect Safari would get this ability natively at some point soon it never get promoted to a proper feature but would seem like a useful tool for the initial period.
@christianselig As far as I know the only way to do it is to use the UIKit UIWindowScene.GeometryPreferences options and then apply that to your scene using requestGeometryUpdate. The actual mechanism I'm using for that feels like a giant pile of hacks, but so far it seems to work pretty reliably. There doesn't seem to be a good way to do it in SwiftUI only.
@its_john_davis@christianselig Interestingly, I tried that approach a few months back and could never get it to work, but it does look to work correctly now in the GM version. So I can investigate moving towards that as my approach now instead of dropping down into Catalyst. Thanks for the tip.
@_Davidsmith
Maybe not in the context of Widgetsmith, but I think there is a place for a good #SiteSpecificBrowser app on all platforms. #FluidApp and #Cromeless were good entry points but are not maintained anymore. #PWA is only halfway there. Individual browser instances is better. And it does not look like Apple will do this well.
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