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Apple attempting killing PWAs in EU: Action Needed (open-web-advocacy.org)
submitted 8 months ago by libreom@lemmings.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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Apple has decided to remove Progressive web apps from iOS in EU. If you have a business in the EU or serve EU users via Web App/PWA, we must hear from you in the next 48 hours!

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Didn't Firefox kill PWA support too.

What was Mozilla's reason behind this?

[–] leaskovski@kbin.social 49 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Only on the desktop. PWAs still exist on the mobile version of it.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Thank you. Wasn't sure about mobile myself.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do they? I haven't been able to figure it how to save a shortcut for a PWA, so all the PWAs on my phone use Chrome :/

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tap the three dots on bottom left, install.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't see it.

If I tap "add to home screen" then it just adds a shortcut that opens the page in Firefox with all the regular browser chrome still present.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You need to be on a website that support PWA.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is https://lemmy.world/ for example.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Reasons were basically too much maintenance for little benefit on the desktop they could see

Meanwhile, they remove GTK and Qt theming from Thunderbird

(n.b.: I actually agree that PWAs have little more benefit on the desktop than a bookmark, but still)