Magento, a company based in Berlin offering hosting and e-commerce platform, posted a video illustrating to their EU customers the significant impact of removing PWA support in iOS 17.4 on their services.
@mysk Reminder on the wording: It’s PWA:s on home screens that are removed, not PWA:s themselves. The progressive nature of PWA:s means that a lot of functionality should still remain when used in browser and it’s a PWA no matter if installed or not. https://mastodon.social/@voxpelli/111974517822528293
@voxpelli A PWA is mostly understood as an app that once added to the Home Screen, it:
1- runs as a standalone app in full-screen mode
2- has its own isolated storage, i.e. not shared with the browser
3- receives push notifications
Staring iOS 17.4, URLs added to the Home Screen won't have these benefits. For many, this means that PWA support is removed in iOS 17.4.
@voxpelli This is really true. Developers are using this term with their average users. And to explain what a PWA is they utter "Progressive Web App". I wonder what an average user thinks when they read "Progressive Web App". It sounds more like a music genre 😂
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