If someone's added a web app to their iOS home screen, does anyone know a way to send that person a link which opens in that installed web app, rather than in a browser tab?
Does anyone use the "g" + letter combination keyboard shortcuts? I'm wondering where its origin are from. Also made a quick comparison table of them for Pinafore, Mastodon, X and Elk (Phanpy doesn't support them).
With macOS Sonoma, Apple goes all-in on the concept of installable web apps. They're highly integrated in the overall macOS experience and don't give away their web roots by not showing any Safari UI at all.
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.
A while ago I found a link to a European(German?) company that had created a series of privacy preserving online apps as an alternative to Google and others. I sadly lost that and can't recall the company. I think that perhaps @aral posted it? Anyone know who it might be?
Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are still disabled for EU users in #iOS 17.4 beta 2. But now there's a new pop-up. The pop-up somehow indicates that PWAs are disabled intentionally, rather than being a bug.
Here's something a lot of people probably don't realize.
I'm sure there are at least some people making use of the progressive web apps offered by chrome/chromium. I mention only those because I don't know if other browsers offer something similar. You know that button near the address bar that says something like "Install Whatsapp Web" or some other app name? Those are the ones I'm talking about.
Those apps are useful, I've got to admit. It makes a neat shortcut on your desktop you can reach easily, it saves you some time because you don't have to go on the website in question... It keeps the app in its own window separate from the rest, which can be useful if you're the kind of person that opens 40 tabs at once or more in a single browser session.
Google also claim that it reduces the resource usage of those apps, but I'm personally quite sceptical of such fancy claims. #chrome#chromium#webapps
Hmm, i am going to stick with the #fediverse#webapps for the time being, #whalebird was good in some places and clunky in others - I imagine it would work better if I had multiple fediverse accounts that i want to access from one single location.
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#WebApps#Privacy#Cybersecurity#OpenWeb: "The problem with in-app browsers is that they play by a different set of rules from standalone browsers. As noted by OWA in its 62-page submission [PDF] to regulators:
They override the user's choice of default browser
They raise tangible security and privacy harms
They stop the user from using their ad-blockers and tracker blockers
Their default browsers privacy and security settings are not shared
They are typically missing web features
They typically have many unique bugs and issues
The user's session state is not shared so they are booted out of websites they have logged into in their default browser
-They provide little benefit to users
They create significant work and often break third-party websites
They don't compete as browsers
They confuse users and today function as dark patterns
Since around 2016, software engineers involved in web application development started voicing concerns about in-app browsers at some of the companies using them. But it wasn't until around 2019 when Google engineer Thomas Steiner published a blog post about Facebook's use of in-app browsers in its iOS and Android apps that the privacy and choice impact of in-app browsers began to register with a wider audience." https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/
Checking out the listed web / desktop #apps for #Mastodon most of them are really underwhelming. They even fail to describe on why one should use them. I didn't find a single desktop app which was worth installing, just from the information provided on their webpage. Multiaccount usage is irrelevant to me, for now.
With the #webapps I am now briefly trying out #phanpy#tooty#statuzer#trunksapp#elk and #mastodeck
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