Apple attempting killing PWAs in EU: Action Needed
Apple attempting killing PWAs in EU: Action Needed
Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide
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Apple has decided to remove Progressive web apps from iOS in EU. If you have a business in the EU or serve EU users via Web App/PWA, we must hear from you in the next 48 hours!
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Didn't Firefox kill PWA support too.
What was Mozilla's reason behind this?
37 0 ReplyOnly on the desktop. PWAs still exist on the mobile version of it.
50 0 ReplyThank you. Wasn't sure about mobile myself.
13 0 ReplyDo they? I haven't been able to figure it how to save a shortcut for a PWA, so all the PWAs on my phone use Chrome :/
3 0 ReplyTap the three dots on bottom left, install.
3 0 ReplyI don't see it.
If I tap "add to home screen" then it just adds a shortcut that opens the page in Firefox with all the regular browser chrome still present.
3 0 ReplyYou need to be on a website that support PWA.
7 0 ReplyThis is https://lemmy.world/ for example.
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Reasons were basically too much maintenance for little benefit on the desktop they could see
Meanwhile, they remove GTK and Qt theming from Thunderbird
(n.b.: I actually agree that PWAs have little more benefit on the desktop than a bookmark, but still)
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