It’s the year 201x, and everyone has a phone — statistically an Android phone, if it’s a smartphone. Most importantly, it’s the primary and only internet device for the average person. 📳⚠️
A tweetstorm digestion by Alex & Owen.
“Why would someone add this banner to their website?!” asks Ada Rose Edwards:
By Pete LePage
This is a brief service announcement of some impending changes to Notifications on…
Two years ago, our team at Google started work on JavaScript libraries to reduce the…
Chrome first introduced the “Add to Home screen” banners in Chrome 51. This was a big step for the web as it provided users the ability to easily keep a favorite site on their Home screen, much like native apps. We’ve heard from developers like Alibaba that…
Progressive Web Apps allows applications to offer functionality that weren't possible before. Some of those include adding offline behaviour to a page, or allowing users to launch a website from the home screen.
In his Ode to the Desktop, Dion writes:
I consumed more and created less
I’ve written down similar thoughts many years ago, and I’m glad we’re having this discussion again. The above summarizes the biggest flaw of the new and shiny…
