Hey @mozilla , can we exepct #PWA / #ProgressiveWebApp support in #Firefox again some day? Would be really great because I don't like to see my colleagues using #Edge on #Ubuntu because of it's #PWA support 😭 (and other browsers had some issues, too)
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...
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?