Sounds useless to me. Web is for piracy.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Yea, I really don't get what a PWA even is.
I don't really know the technical details, but my mental model is it's like an electron app but your browser is what powers it, and you don't get all the bloat an electron app brings with it
Why is this news? We had these for over a decade - Firefox had XULRunner, Opera back then had some sort of app thingy, I feel like this comes around every so often and it never really catches on because you could just run the website in the browser anyway - doing it with less browser controls / UI never seems to catch on. Maybe this time it will but...
Is that not just a web browser with extra steps?
A PWA or electron?
PWA
Sort of. Pwas can be closer to an app, sandboxed, and work offline. There are a few other benefits as far as i know, the main thing that frustrates me about it is that microsoft is dropping support for their teams for linux app and switching to a pwa
I still need someone to fully explain to me why they want some way to pretend a website is an application.
Especially as, when I tried using PWA (so I could open, for example, Lazada PWA as if it was a specific application instead of just Lazada running in Firefox) the only benefit was that - erm - it worked in it's own profile, without any add-ons from the main browser profile.
For this, I can simply use the WebApp manager https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager - yet I find that right now I only have a single one which is in use (that's the Plex Web interface which I bound to open with a mouse gesture).
Take that away and - well, I just hit menu, type 'ple' and see the Firefox bookmark - Enter to open that.
Hardly really worth the resources and efforts for a tiny minority when a browser is struggling to survive.