4. (Progressive) #Webapps.
While iOS has blocked this feature for years, locking developers to their pricey and walled #AppStore, on Android every Website in your browser can be used like a native app.
#Meta ironically blocks this aggressively, locking Video Playback and more to their App™. Other apps like #GoogleMaps, #TikTok or #Shitter annoy you with popups, but offer often reduced versions like this.
Webapps are WAY more isolated, cannot execute random code and more.
7/8
File encryption with a browser.
I've been exploring the #WebCryptoAPI and I'm impressed!
When combined with the #FileSystemAPI, it offers a seemingly secure way to #encrypt and #store files directly on your device. Think #localstorage, but with #encryption!
I know #webapps can have #security vulnerabilities since the code is served over the web, so I've #OpenSourced my demo! You can check it out, and it should even work if #selfhosted on #GitHubPages.
Live Demo: https://dim.positive-intentions.com/?path=/story/usefs--encrypted-demo
Demo Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/stories/05-Hooks-useFS.stories.js
Hook Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/dim/blob/staging/src/hooks/useFS.js
IMPORTANT NOTES (PLEASE READ!):
* This is NOT a product. It's for #testing and #demonstration purposes only.
* It has NOT been reviewed or audited. Do NOT use for sensitive data.
* The "password encryption" currently uses a hardcoded password. This is for demonstration, not security.
* This is NOT meant to replace robust solutions like #VeraCrypt. It's just a #proofofconcept to show what's possible with #browser #APIs.
@patrickcmiller which is yet another reason why I explicitly recommend to not trust #Browsers & #WebApps but use either proper clients (i.e. @monocles / #monoclesMail & @thunderbird ) or do the #airgapped #OfflinePGP method!
@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen @fuchsiii obviously, that would've been a good standard for everyone, given that almost all non-#Gaming #Apps these days are #WebApps and at that point we'd not have 100+ MB #bloatware that essentially just loads a #Website and can't even cache shit!
Personally I believe the @europarl_en & @EUCommission could do that and establish as well as enforce an #EC #norm, just as they did with #USBc, #CCS2 and #GDPR!
#Android needs to be better as in being more than just the "lesser evil" compared to iOS!
Modern #TechStack|s are convenient but they also make #developers lazy and result in the #enfattening of #Software and #Games.
Nowadays we have shitty #WebApps that eat up 100+MB just for a #WebView and which are instantly useless once they don't have a high-speed, low latency internet connection!
And don't even get me started on all the #WastefulComputing aka. "#AI" #bs and #Shitcoin - #Scams!
Mozilla is paving the way for bringing support for Progressive Web Apps back to Firefox. They'll still look and function like browser tabs rather than standalone apps, but they'll show up more like apps in the OS as "taskbar tabs." #Mozilla #Firefox #TaskbarTabs #ProgressiveWebApps #WebApps #WebBrowsers https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-nightly-supports-web-apps-taskbar-tabs
This week's top clicked link in the Hiro Report is Life in Weeks! 
This clever web app visualizes one's entire life as divided into weeks. There are customizations you can do to depict where you were during periods of your life, mark important dates, and so on. Really fun concept.
December’s For A Better Web podcast episode is out now! 
@brucelawson's guest this time is Léonie Watson (@tink) and they have a chat about web accessibility, the WebApps Working Group, W3C, and lots more.
Give it a listen on https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/4-leonie-watson-for-a-better-web/, where you’ll also find the transcript, show notes and other podcast sources.
@mook OFC I do differenciate between "#WebApps" and #Websites to the point that #AnimateJS et. al. are the de-facto successor to #Flash as #Adobe literally supported it for that reason.
For a lot of of cases, #JavaScript is mostly unnecessary fluff.
I find it espechally insulting when stuff like #Mastodon prevents people from even looking up a profile or post at all cuz that's static content at the time of loading it and there's no legitimate reason to just offer a "lite" UI that just displays an otherwise hidden by #CSS & #JS banner that says sth. like: "this is just a lite preview. Certain functionality will not work, like commenting, boosting or liking. Please use a 3rd party client or activate JavaScript and reload the page if you want to use that."
If you use Native Apps because #WebApps don't have a "nice user experience" you're a precious little baby.
> For 7 years, #Google has failed to keep its commitment to share the ability to install #WebApps with third-party #browsers on #Android, despite public requests from #Samsung, #Microsoft, #Brave & #Kiwi #browser.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/google-must-share-the-ability-to-install-web-apps-in-android/
Apple's Sweet Solution for Revenue: Web Apps
Apple has released two web apps within the last month, Maps and Podcasts. I have been thinking about how these of two web apps can fit into Apple's overall revenue strategy.
#apple #services #financials #webapps
https://www.waynedixon.com/2024/08/25/apples-sweet-solution-for-revenue-web-apps
Build Fast, Scalable Web Apps With Python Using FastHTML #Fasthtml #Python #Webapps #Opensource #Linux #Framework
https://ostechnix.com/build-web-apps-with-python-using-fasthtml/
> #React #Compiler is the result of a problem: the introduction of #hooks has led to far too much logic in #components.
It's clear to me that #Knockout had it right back in 2012; #MVVM is the correct pattern for #WebApps
https://www.mikejohnson.dev/posts/2024/06/mobx-react-compiler
Large Language Models (LLMs) are being distributed across many devices and platforms. Having these models available on-device can help reduce the need for sending private data to cloud-hosted systems.
At the @w3c member meeting last month in #Hiroshima 
, Chunhui Mo (Huawei) explored what it would take to expose these LLMs to #WebApps through a Web #API and the advantages it could bring in terms of #privacy, #security and #performance.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/7S60LNBAFj0
Does anyone use the "g" + letter combination keyboard shortcuts? I'm wondering where its origin are from. Also made a quick comparison table of them for Pinafore, Mastodon, X and Elk (Phanpy doesn't support them).
Apple changes course, will keep iPhone EU web apps how they are in iOS 17.4 - Enlarge / EU legislation has pushed a number of changes previously thou... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2007292 #appleprogressivewebapps #applehomescreenwebapps #webapps #apple #tech #ios #eu
EU might be looking into Apple's hobbling of web apps in Europe (websites pinned to the home screen) because the company doesn't like the idea of third-party browsers (Chrome or Firefox, for example) running them. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/26/disabled-web-apps-attract-eu-scrutiny/
#web #WebApps #Apple #EU
I'd missed this: Apple, faced with the prospect of web apps using non-Safari browser engines, is killing web apps altogether in the EU. This is politico-techno-legal hardball. https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/ #Browsers #WebApps #Apple
