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Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (28 children)

Firefox for Android supports PWAs, only Desktop Firefox dropped the support

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Which honestly makes sense, what’s the point of PWA on desktop?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Web apps are awesome on desktop especially when common clients like Skype and Slack are absolute fucking shit with zero dev time spent on them because Electron is a lazy alternative despite being shit software that needs to fucking die.

Thankfully --no-remote parameter still sort of works to make Firefox semi usable as a web app.

[–] rambaroo 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Didn't slack just revamp their entire UI? And also what's functionally wrong with it? I haven't had any issues with slack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

After years of using it, there was only once a brief release in which screen sharing actually worked. The only way I can share screen at the moment is by launching slack in any of chrome based browsers. None of the apps work. Not the native one, not the flatpak, not the snap.