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@manton right on. As you note, Apple is approving the 3rd party browsers, so why can't they be trusted to run PWAs?
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Yes. Just when Apple wants developers to get excited about Vision Pro. Fool me once, shame on you...
@manton I've asked before but is there any chance micro.blog will have support for PWA added anytime soon? As of now it just opens a tab in Safari.
The native app on iPad is lacking in a few things. For example, viewing an image is pretty terrible as it requires scrolling to view the image rather than it being scaled and centered. And scrolling through posts on the timeline doesn't work with the keyboard. When making new posts it lacks adding categories, no option to set as a draft. Those are a few of the more notable and frustrating for me. By comparison the website is a better experience, would be great to be able to save it as a PWA.
Oh, and on the subject of the website, is there a reason why spell check does not work in text fields like comments or new posts?
@jemostrom @Denny Thanks. More keyboard shortcuts will be in the next iPad release. I was working on them recently. For PWAs, I'd like to look into this. Spell-check only works in desktop browsers right now, but that's something I want to fix too.
@manton @jemostrom Thanks! And for what it's worth, Loura's Lillihub works as a PWA, using it right now!
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@robb @manton on the other hand, if developers is not happy to post on App Store and pay, then they can go to Android. It is open and you do what you want. The people who want those apps can then buy Android mobiles. Anyways, I don’t really trust any non-Apple apps for they all collect something from me - $$$
I buy my device and ecosystem that works and are safe.