More clutter. Maybe just trying to incentive people to move away from Chrome because Safari on Mac is not as good.
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Here's How Web Apps Work in macOS Sonoma
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Extensions are not supported (at least in Beta 1).
This sucks as it means I can't use extensions like Noir for dark mode websites.
Can developers opt out of their websites being turned into these things?
So they Sherlocked Fluid.app and mimicked Chromium? Yay?
My big question: does ABP (and other extensions) still work in the web app? Because I’m aggressive with ad blocking.
My big question: does ABP (and other extensions) still work in the web app? Because I’m aggressive with ad blocking.
How is this useful?. What is its value as user over a browser?. I don’t see it. I have to have a web app for every website I visit instead of having tabs in the browser?.
As a PWA developer, this is exactly what I was wondering as well. One of the primary reasons for creating a PWA is persistent storage, which is supported in Safari in iOS but has never been supported in MacOS Safari. As you say, Safari is very aggressive about deleting localStorage data after 7 days. Other major browsers don't do that (AFAIK).
What this article is describing sounds more like a "bookmark" in a special kind of window and not a "real" web app. But perhaps there's more we don't know yet.
I did this with a couple third party tools over the years to have “apps” for my streaming services, nice to have this native!
However, after I removed MacRumors from the Dock it still shows in Launchpad. I don't know if this is a bug though.
Hmm that just reinforces my bafflement as to why bother with a web app. Oh I'm sure there will be some increased functionality for some, but for most webpages why bother?
Yeah, now instead of one icon in the dock, Safari, I'm going to have an icon for every site I usually visit? (Which is currently six that I have in one Favorite/Bookmark thing that I pull down multiple times a day and select Open in New Tabs.)
you can also drag the applications from the user application folder and put them in the regular application folder or another folder and they can be moved off of the dock
haha, experiment a little bit, you can move them off of the dock and have them act like any other application. I had the same thought, so I experimented, about 30 seconds later, I had my answer
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Steve Jobs against web apps which is why we have the App Store yet now web apps on Safari is introduced in WWDC 2023?
Windows and other browsers aside from Safari are able to use web apps for years now right?
Windows and other browsers aside from Safari are able to use web apps for years now right?
Is it safe to say Apple’s Web Apps are the same thing as a Progressive Web App?
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No, you can choose to have back and foward controls though.
Sorry, you're wrong - in fact, you have it backwards!
"The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. They can make a call, they can send an email, they can look up a location on Google Maps. And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got everything you need if you know how to write apps using the most modern web standards to write amazing apps for the iPhone today. So developers, we think we’ve got a very sweet story for you. You can begin building your iPhone apps today."
Jobs' original vision for the iPhone: No third-party native apps - 9to5Mac
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vq993Td6ys] Remember back in 2007 when Apple first told developers that to develop for the iPhone, they’d need to build...
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