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"4. PWAs everywhere" Yeah, yeah, I read that many times while I researched about it.
But everywhere seams to mean today, everywhere except for the old-school Desktop (!) I mean I understand, that the implementation and development of a new standard takes time and since mobile is hip, everyone focus there first. Makes sense. But I feel a bit ridicouled(and annoyed) with all the PWA, don't worry about plattform talk - and then there are no signs at all, that the traditional desktop is a target in the near future, if it is at all. At least I could not find further informations. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest And I am building a webapp, which does a bit more than turning on a lightbulb, so I also like it to run on a real PC. To work with it. With a screen and keyboard - and yes, whenever I want, easily switch to mobile and still be able to work with it, ... this is what would make me excited.
True plattform-independence, where I don't have to worry about clumsy plattform details.
What I have to worry about is adjusting to the screensize, etc. and if there is a keyboard, mouse, gps, device orientation, battery maybe(so the app knows to save urgent data, before, the power goes off), pressure sensitive pen, multitouch, etc. etc. I'd like to have all this information and then present the user the best UI I can master with the given conditions and don't worry what happens behind the scene. I just target the WebAPI's. And they get more and more powerful. Mozilla tried to build and market their OS around them, which failed comercially, but helped the basic idea a lot.
And this basic idea I like because of the simplicity. So I am excited and looking forward for further improvements ... but please don't forget the desktop as a plattform! |