What’s new, what’s missing, new challenges and new abilities — ⚠️ Updated version of this article in my new site ⏩ firt.dev/ios-14 From today, iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 are available to most users in the world. I’ve played with it, and here you have a list of the essential changes for PWA and Web Designers and Developers. As usual with Apple, some (most?) of this information was not documented at all.

Originally published at firt.dev. Check it for articles, notes, and learning experiences on mobile, web, and PWA. PhoneGap started as a project to fill the gap between the native and the Web world in 2008. Adobe announced the end of the PhoneGap product line and the end of the investment…

Two weeks ago, I published a tweet ending with “WebKit took the lazy way,” based on a recent update. It took one-word －lazy－, to make all the debate a little crazy. And it involves, sadly, the Safari team pretending being victims while disrespecting Apple’s values in the community. This is…

⚠️ Updated version of this article ⏩ firt.dev It’s been more than 12 years since Steve Jobs originally presented the idea of web apps “that look exactly and behave exactly like native apps,” and it’s been more than 4 years since the term “PWA” was coined. How Progressive Web Apps…

⚠️ Check an updated version of this article at ⏩ firt.dev It’s that time again. iOS 13 has just been released with the new branded iPadOS 13 coming in a few days, and iPhone 11 variations being sold from today. …

When you are interested in web performance, image compression and optimization are key aspects to consider that will impact many user-centric metrics, such as First Meaningful Paint and Speed Index. I’ve researched the image optimization solutions offered by the main CDN providers in order to identify the most relevant techniques…

⚠️ Updated version of this article ⏩ firt.dev One year after the first initial support for PWAs on iOS, Apple released iOS 12.2 for iPhone and iPads with what it seems to be the biggest step forward in the last year, addressing the two most annoying problems we’ve been dealing…

⚠️ Updated version of this article ⏩ firt.dev Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play Store! I played with the feature for a while, digging into the APIs and here you have a summary of…

A year ago, in January 2018, Apple surprised everyone with its early support for Progressive Web App technologies in iOS 11.3 beta. At that time, I published PWAs coming to iOS: Cupertino, we have a problem. Two months later, the stable release appeared and most of the bugs and UX…