Not that it matters, but I actually did know URLs can be signed :) What I haven’t seen before is using this to address the problem of clients considering URLs as the API (instead of using hypermedia)
Signing URLs, what a cool idea! It’s so obvious, and apparently it’s been around for a while, but I’d never come across this before
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Signing URLs, what a cool idea! It’s so obvious, and apparently it’s been around for a while, but I’d never come across this before
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German terrorists first kidnapping, then killing, an industry manager, Hanns Martin Schleyer, in 1977. If that’s not a major enough event, it would probably the Falkland war, I remember listening to reports about it in school
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I think another factor (in tech) is “community”. People want to be close to others who share their tech preferences, and tech differences are great candidates for creating we/they situations
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I don’t really buy that argument. If you really care about users with bad connections and shitty devices, using SSR and as little JS as possible (and progressive enhancement when your do) seem to me the key aspects, not the offline/service worker part
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No, not at all. JS is perfectly fine, but should be optional for the app’s core features if possible
I don’t really get the whole “I want to be more like a native app” thing. Not being like a native app feels like a good thing to me
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But what are the useful things it can do if it’s not connected? Surely those are very rare? Twitter as an example – what’s the point of it when used offline?
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I use the mobile Twitter app but I’m not aware I’m using any of its PWA features (I most definitely don’t get, nor want, push notifications on iOS). I tap mobile Safari’s address bar and it’s the very first hit
It’s not that I don’t know what it is. It’s that I wonder why these benefits are so relevant. What are good examples of web apps where this is important?
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It seems this can be misunderstood. I’m not disputing the advantages of web apps over native apps. I’m wondering what the benefits of PWAs over plain web apps are, and why I’m supposed to make a big deal of them
As a big fan of the web, I still fail to get what significant advantage PWAs are supposed to have. Still seems like a completely unnecessary marketing effort to me. Am I missing something?
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I’m not disputing the benefits of web apps over native apps, but the benefits of PWAs over plain web apps
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