Oh please they pushed back pwas for "security reasons" for years. Safari is the browser with most quirks compared to FF and Chrome, it's considered by many the new IE holding back innovation. Sure they implemented some stuff before other who cares of changes that don't disrupt their apple store model? I don't want mansonry layout if not for designers portfolio or blog? I develop serious appa and I want an api to invent my own layout and I want feature parity with native apps
> Safari is the browser with most quirks compared to FF and Chrome
That may have been true 5 years ago and I get developers have long memories—but that's no longer the case.
> Sure they implemented some stuff before other who cares of changes that don't disrupt their apple store model?
The conspiracy theory Apple, whose revenue was $391 billion last fiscal year sees PWAs as a "threat" is nonsensical. Also, new features for the web platform gives developers another reason to create web apps instead of a native app.
In reality, Safari's PWA support is really good; it has implemented 89% of supported PWA features vs 96% for Chrome according to the PWA scorecard [1].
> It's considered by many the new IE holding back innovation
As someone who lived through the '90s and early 2000s doing web stuff, I can assure you anyone who believes "Safari is the new IE" literally has no idea what they're talking about; they're just repeating a meme they don't understand.
> In reality, Safari's PWA support is really good; it has implemented 89% of supported PWA features vs 96% for Chrome according to the PWA scorecard [1].
I remember, I was like, ohh sounds great! So I tirelessly looked for an "add to home screen" button but couldn't find it.
I had to search google to find the answer, you hve to share it!?
weird but okay, so I open the share menu. No such option there.
Again I search, ahh so you have to first edit the sharing options!
The only thing missing from the experience was a warning dialog.
Moral of the story, it doesn't matter if it works if people cant find it.
The 3rd class experience was funny but then they announced they were going to get rid of pwa's entirely.
> The need to remove the capability was informed by the complex security and privacy concerns...
When a 4T company says such things you know it must be hard.... lmfao....
I've never had to explain to an android user how to "Add to home screen". Explaining it to iphone users honestly sounded like I was trying to hack them. It drifts so far from apples usually polished UI that I cant blame them.
