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Yo, fire fox what the fuck? (europe.pub)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

Sure but I consider coding your website to work correctly as a regular website to be a bare minimum requirement for me to want to use it. I've never used pixelfed and if their site doesn't work well without being run as a pwa, then I probably never well.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone's home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted

    pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I'm not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta's services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).

    The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone’s home screen

    ...A URL alias?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago*

    sort of like a more accessible bookmark, separated out so as to not get buried within 800 tabs (if you're anything like my mum). it's not anything groundbreaking in actual use, I guess it kind of just appifies a given webpage (there is some technical nuance that I'm kind of glossing over to assure standards compliance and help them perform better offline).

    It can be kind of nice on a phone to eliminate some of the UI chrome given the limited screen real estate you have.

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