Shortly before I left the Civil Service in 2023, I made a complete fool of myself. Someone on Slack was discussing their department's app and I (rather snidely) asked why it was an app rather than a website. After all, one of the seminal blog posts of GDS was about not building apps. In response, […]
@simevidas@cwilcox808@Edent Sorry, didn't know it was down. Here's perhaps a nicer overview anyway. TL;DR: we made the web a LOT more capable everywhere we were allowed to. That last part is why it's so crucial to understand this not as an inevitable thing about the web, but a boot on the face by Apple:
@Edent I was under the impression that the web is closing the “gap to native”, but your blog post makes it sound like we’re moving in the opposite direction.
> NFC … BLE … biometric security
Google has already brought all of these to Chrome on Android.
> The web still isn't great at caching data for offline use … Apps usually use less data than websites
A good team can create a web app that works offline without any issues and that is several times smaller than the equivalent native app.
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I believe Firefox and Safari have opposed supporting NFC and BLE.
Offline use of infrequently used web apps are complicated by Safari discarding stored information after 7 days of non-use. I don't know about other browsers.
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