Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
Honestly, as a Mac/iPhone/Safari user, I only know the term PWA from comment threads where people complain that Apple doesn't support PWA, I wouldn't have heard about it otherwise (and I still don't exactly know what it is, some kind of installable web application apparently?)
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Samuel
yeah something like that. I thought of notifications because that’s the part Apple held out on the longest iirc
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Eurosky Sebastian
I don't know a single iOS user who has a pwa installed on their device's home screen (through the "save this website to the home screen" thingy)
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
Yeah… I've always looked at it as something not quite as good as the real thing (native apps), that never worked well, and I either use apps if possible or open websites in Safari… Although I'm looking forward to using that on macOS Sonoma, because it's a very different situation with Electron etc.
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hailey
These days honestly performance is pretty decent with Capicator. The only thing that suffers considerably is animations since they are not running natively but rather in the webview
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hailey
If Apple gets the hand forced to allow third party web engines then some more ground will probably be gained. Already though there are a lot of PWAs for all intents and purposes on the App Store. (Burger King for example uses capicator and the store app is just a webview)
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
I mean not performance, but that "save website as an icon on the home screen" was never somehow implemented well on iOS, last time I tried at least, in terms of how the UX of it works, it was opening Safari anyway or something (but that might have been long ago)
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Mauro
I think it visibly opens Safari only if the website doesn’t have a manifest…
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hailey
Oh yea for sure. I think it’s different now and doesn’t open in safari (not visually anyway. It is safari but it’s not noticeable to the user) The whole flow of adding it to the Home Screen is still horrible and imo the biggest problem. It’s hard to get an app it without the store platform
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Sev
The main case I've seen for making one is for business for internal users - "What is the cheapest, easiest to build /support / train for, way to get this web-based internal tool on all of our reps / researchers / whatever's phones?" Crappy install UX is nbd if your users are your employees.
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