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A Boring Dystopia
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"Hello user, instead of viewing this information as a website that you can modify locally and adjust to your heart's content, how about you view it as an app where doing anything like that is a felony with a jail sentence?"
in my (albeit limited) experience, that isn't how it works. for example, ublock origin should still filter content as you'd expect, and I'd imagine inspect element would work on desktops too.
this just renders a webpage without the typical UI chrome (tabs, address/omnibar). it can be handy on am android phone for webapps like pixelfed (which is the only thing I use as pwa so far).
Sure but I consider coding your website to work correctly as a regular website to be a bare minimum requirement for me to want to use it. I've never used pixelfed and if their site doesn't work well without being run as a pwa, then I probably never well.
I don't think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone's home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted
pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I'm not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta's services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).
The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.
...A URL alias?
sort of like a more accessible bookmark, separated out so as to not get buried within 800 tabs (if you're anything like my mum). it's not anything groundbreaking in actual use, I guess it kind of just appifies a given webpage (there is some technical nuance that I'm kind of glossing over to assure standards compliance and help them perform better offline).
It can be kind of nice on a phone to eliminate some of the UI chrome given the limited screen real estate you have.
Dude, look up what a progressive web app is. It's just a standards-compliant web page with some reactivity done locally using javascript. Some of them even work perfectly offline because the whole page is cached locally. No jail sentences needed.
I know what a PWA is, let me curmudgeon dammit.
Upvotes for curmudgeons.