are pwas cooked?

I’m 45 years old and using cooked to mean something that it never meant. I don’t know when it happened, but it’s out there along with vibe. Anyway… This post is all personal opinion. Before we go too deep, I just want to ground some of this article in the definition of a PWA. MDN has a good overview. “A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that’s built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.”

AI Focus

#Development #Introductions
New HTML element for installing web apps · Try the native install button with no JavaScript required https://ilo.im/16cwel

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#WebApps #PWAs #Chrome #Browsers #OriginTrial #APIs #WebDev #Frontend #HTML #JavaScript

Install web apps with the new HTML install element  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Test the proposed install element.

Chrome for Developers
The Fulcrum 10 April, 2026

Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.

It’s your weekly review of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Fediverse development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism. We aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.

IMHO, the best way to do […]

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-fulcrum-10-april-2026/ #ActivityPub #astro #ATProto #BackdropCMS #Bear #Bonfire #Codefloe #CSS #Decidim #DWeb #EmDash #FDroid #FediLab #fediverse #Ghost #Holos #HTML #HTMX #JavasScript #Kdenlive #LAUTI #Linux #OMN #PWAs #RSS #WebAwesome #WordPress #WriteFreely #XMPP #xWiki
The Web Is An Antitrust Wedge

Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, regulators around the world are struggling to find their footing. The UK's CMA is only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Far from unlocking growth and dynamism, regulatory timidity is reducing enforcers' future room for manoeuvre and hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. Unleashing the web would fix a great deal of what's broken, but regulators are falling down on the job. It's time we spoke plainly about it.

Alex Russell
GitHub - webhintio/hint: 💡 A hinting engine for the web

💡 A hinting engine for the web. Contribute to webhintio/hint development by creating an account on GitHub.

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#Development #Releases
A better way to update web apps · Updates are more predictable in Chrome 144 https://ilo.im/16a0sf

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#WebApps #PWAs #Manifest #Icons #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend

A better way to update your web apps  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Changes to the update process for installable web apps.

Chrome for Developers

While I'll admit this is somewhat self serving, I do believe that web apps rather than "native" apps remain the best path forward for most things, also on mobile.

The web remains the only platform that is not (entirely) controlled by #BigTech. There's no approval process. Web apps cannot (easily) be pulled. Whoever builds them is in full control of their distribution. There's no tax on "in app" purchases. Yes, the browser landscape is not as diverse as it ought to be and hopefully that will improve, but if you compare it to Apple and Google-controlled ecosystems like iOS and Android, it's still miles ahead. Also, they're way cheaper to build.

In 2026 I'm aiming to be more deliberate in filling up my dock and home screen (yes, I will likely stay on Apple operating systems for pragmatic reasons) with more and more web apps, replacing native apps. I think this doable now. OS support for PWAs has improved a lot (even on iOS). They can be icons on your home screen/dock, they can be fast, they can be offline capable, they can send notifications.

On my home screen right now some daily driver #PWAs: @silverbulletmd (notes), @phanpy (fediverse), #Miniflux (RSS reading), Voyager (Lenny and PieSocial client), @linkwarden (link collection), @homeassistant (still the native app, but 99% web tech), #Ghost (blogging), @plausible (analytics). #Feishin (@navidrome_releases streaming), @fastmail (email).

Tìm thấy ZemWallet - ứng dụng theo dõi ngân sách ưu tiên quyền riêng tư! Dữ liệu của bạn được lưu trữ an toàn trên điện thoại, có thể xuất dưới dạng JSON và tích hợp công cụ tính toán khoản vay. Chỉ cần cài đặt PWA là bạn có thể sử dụng miễn phí, riêng tư trọn đời.

#ZemWallet #BudgetTracker #Privacy #Finance #App #PWAs
#ỨngDụng #TheoDõiNgânSách #QuyềnRiêngTư #TàiChính

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1pbg5n6/bhai_log_finally_india_mein_ek_proper_privacywala/

jFS3 released, a tiny (~10 kB minimized) browser filesystem with content-addressed blocks, copy-on-write, dedup, snapshots (“universes”), events and optional async sync, fully powered by IndexedDB.

https://github.com/MS702/jFS3

#javascript #webdev #foss #filesystems #PWAs #Webxdc

📢 #w3cTPAC demo!
Navigation capturing in Progressive Web Apps (#PWAs) boots performance by eliminating the delay associated with opening a new browser tab and loading a page. This results in a faster and smoother user experience, like in Google Chat, which cut latency by keeping navigation within the app for a more native, seamless feel.

🎬 Watch another @w3c #WebApps #WorkingGroup demo by Dibyajyoti Pal: https://youtu.be/dU9vJUKQvs4