Yes, you heard that right. Web apps on Mac, from Safari. Any website can be added to your Dock, and opened as a web app. Web app developers can customize their web app with a web manifest file and more — just like for web apps on iOS and iPadOS. Stay tuned for all the details later this week.
@jensimmons very curious if and how this will tie in with existing #pwa standards and features. It would be sad if something as universal as the web would require two different ways of doing things for #macOS and the rest of the operating systems.
Also, is this a first step to allowing install prompts line Chrome and Android do? 🤔
Hi, I'm Andy. I started my technology journey with a ZX Spectrum 48K. I learned #BASIC. Later I moved up to the Spectrum 128K +2. A few years before starting college, I taught myself #VisualBasic 5 in the bath (I didn't have a PC, just a book). My first computer was a Cyrix 686. At college I learned #HTML (not CSS that wasn't really a thing). Since then I have taught myself #PHP and #Javascript and I have a million courses on Udemy to learn other stuff.
I am also very passionate about the weather, and because of the love of tech, I obviously have my own weather station, my own website, self hosted, Raspberry Pi camera, Proxmox getting involved.
Firefox killing SSB support (what people generally simplify as “PWA”s in chromium-based browsers) is IMO one of the largest mistakes Mozilla has ever made.
Even Apple is hopping over to proper PWA support. It’s ultra cringe for Firefox to have killed this off. The future of software is web-based IMO
(Note: I’m just complaining. This is not new news. I’m just perpetually frustrated by this decision)
#Mozilla's decision to get rid of #SSB / #PWA support has the most lingering effects. You've just created an entire instance where enthusiasts will complain about it day and night.
@hen To be fair, apps like VS Code Web (github.dev) perform nicely without SSB shenaniganry, so most of the time I just put website into my bookmarks and it works. Websites can request a persistent storage nowadays, they can do WebXR and many other things on #Firefox and #Chromium.
Push #notifications now available for #Calckey#iOS users using the #PWA.
If you update to iOS 16.4 and "add to home screen", that version (called a PWA) will have full notifications and background/offline support!
For those with the PWA already added, you may need to go into Settings> Notifications> and enable push notifications.
I've now got an account at @jo and getting the same as you all. I think there's a setting that's not allowing push notifications on the instance, so I've asked my admins at blahaj.zone where it works fine to let me know what it might be.
So if @ admin@calckey.social, @atomicpoet, or @kainoa know what that setting is, I'd suggest they change it. Once it's working I'll finish up writing the #Calckey#iOS#PWA How To I'm putting together here.
I hear a lot of people complaining about the prevalence of Electron. I get it, but at the same time, what's the alternative, especially for Linux?
Few companies are going to develop a desktop application for Linux. They want write once, run everywhere. So what are the options? .NET? Java? Please no. Qt? Licensing nightmare.
If not electron what you're probably going to get is a Windows only binary. I too would prefer a native binary but it's usually not realistic.
I don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
Opera in the Presto days was a pioneer. Anybody that enjoys a #PWA (#ProgressiveWebApp) today should be aware of the efforts made by Opera to standardize their Widgets feature, even if the standard they promoted was ultimately obsoleted by the current one, that relies on modern client features that were not available at the time.
The Opera-designed “demonstrative” Unite Applications were media, photo and file sharing applications. Does that make you think of anything?
I've been trying to implement the #shareTarget API in my #PWA for years now and I'm so close to being able to accept files from a share (at least from #Chrome#Android) that I can taste it!!!
In manifest.json I set my method to "POST" and enctype to "multipart/form-data", but when I share to my app it just GETs the page with no POST or even querystring params.
I could try disabling the GET response and see what happens...
Chciałbym, żeby w końcu apki #PWA na telefon wyglądały i działały jak zwykłe aplikacje. Żeby nie było po nich widać, że są przeglądarkowe. Chyba ze wszystkich PWA jakich korzystałem, najlepiej wypada #Calckey