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.
Storage in web apps can be a real pain, but nearly every year the possibilities expand. Thomas Steiner (@tomayac), from the Chrome Dev Team, highlights the latest expansion in detail: the Origin Private File System, which allows to handle complete file structures on the web.
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
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
There’s a debate going on right now about whether Safari should allow users to install web apps via a web link/prompt instead of solely relying on the “Add to Home Screen” option currently hidden in the share menu:
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.
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.
Fantastic post on (levels of maturity) in managing performance, by @slightlyoff
> Teams that reach top-level performance have management support at the highest level. Those managers assume engineers want to do a good job but have the wrong incentives and constraints, and it isn't the line engineer's job to define success — it's the job of management.
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?