#Chrome67 has support for desktop #PWAs. The browser will show the app install banner for a #PWA and the user can install it to the deskotp. Just like on mobile, it'll open without browser chrome (if the dev configured it that way)
Hopefully, this is the start of a larger surge in PWAs and movement away from #Electron.
@zack But it only supports them if you get permission from a Censorship Authority. HTTPS-only is incredibly dangerous so long as it relies on permission from a third party to host a website.
@zack (Technically, you can currently pin self-signed certs. I'm sure they'll revoke that soon enough.)
@zack Also, to be clear, my preferred solution is to find a way to not rely on CAs, not to do away with encryption entirely.
@zack are pwas in chrome really that different? I’d expect they’d spawn the same processes for security.
@sweetietheyknow If you open a pwa from your desktop, it'll open a new in its own window. It's still running in chrome and I assume chrome treats it as just another tab. But you get all the benefits of PWAs
@zack yeah, my point was that that other tab comes with the process overhead of a different site as Chrome usually does. It does this for security reasons.
@sweetietheyknow Sure, but a tab is a lot cheaper than spinning up a whole chromium instance for each app, like electron does
@zack that’s exactly the part I’m wondering about.
@zack Awesome! Great to see it land at last. Here's the meta bug to see the Firefox progress on Desktop PWA's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1407202