• blame [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    on the other hand, stop putting apps in webpages

    • Apps were not supposed to be given a constrained execution environment that is years behind what the hardware can do
    • Years of internet and no real world use-case for using anything other than Lotus 123
    • Wanted to do something else for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “Games”
    • “Yes please let my hardware be useless without internet access” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
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      2 months ago

      Bold of you to assume that the websites wrapped up as apps are in any way useful if you lose internet access.

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      2 months ago

      Service workers are supported by every web browser and enable websites to work offline. They can even do periodic background pushes/refreshes.

      My dream is that one day PWAs replace 90% of apps in existence today.

        • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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          depends what the app is. If its proprietary trash I’m forced to interact with because capitalism, you know I want it in firefox with ublock and as locked down as possible.

          If it’s something relatively trivial I use once or twice and never think about it again? Better to not have that lingering around on my device.

          A good web app is leagues better than several bad native apps, but good, standards-based native apps are almost always better. I’m taking libreoffice over google docs any day, but for more obscure stuff a web-app means I can run it on any device with a browser, not just whatever single OS it was developed and maintained for.