Benjamin Francis <mailto:[email protected]>
2016 February 23 at 07:24
Sorry for being late to this thread but I just wanted to speak in
support of "Progressive Web Apps" and to highlight the difference
between web apps and apps which are built using web technologies.
No worries, I'm glad to hear it!
As I've said before I'm in full support of Web Manifest, Service
Workers and Push for Firefox with a standalone display mode for
Firefox similar to the web runtime, but using Firefox' instance of
Gecko. I'm looking for ways to help move this forward.
There's a tracking bug for the Web App Developer Initiative that
references a variety of issues in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=wadi
In general, Service Workers are the farthest along, implemented on both
desktop and Android (with active development of enhancements like
DevTools support); Push is on desktop, but not yet on Android (although
it's being actively developed); and Web Manifest is implemented in
Gecko, but it isn't yet being used to implement a standalone display
mode, neither on desktop nor on Android.
Nor has there been any movement to do this on desktop. (FWIW, Chrome
doesn't support this either, except as the experimental feature
chrome://flags/#enable-add-to-shelf for development/testing purposes).
On Android, however, there are a handful of bugs to track aspects of
both a standalone mode and "add to homescreen" generally:
*Bug 1126479* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1126479>
-"Add to Homescreen" from home screen does not open in fullscreen
*Bug 1208195* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1208195>
-Show sites opened from Android home screen bookmarks as separate
entries in the Android recent apps list
*Bug 1232706* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232706>
-Promote "Add to home screen" if user visits website often
*Bug 1234558* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1234558>
-Use icon from app manifest for "Add to home screen"
*Bug 1237045* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237045>
-Allow user to edit home screen shortcut name
*Bug 1240560* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1240560>
-When adding website to homes screen, no notification of success/failure
is presented
That's where I think we could have the most impact on Firefox support
for Progressive Web Apps!
-myk
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