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1. Open any site. 2. Click on menu option at the top right of your browser. 3. Add to home screen (select open as window)
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"Install as app" works for any page.
Is the wording 'Install as app' on all pages on edge? Other browsers show 'Install as app' only for PWA and 'add to home screen' for normal websites.
This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.
Sometimes convenience can be enough.
1. Open any site. 2. Click on menu option at the top right of your browser. 3. Add to home screen (select open as window)
Am I missing something? My desktop computer doesn't have a "home screen" and I don't see anything like this option in Chrome or Firefox.
How does this compare to the below? google-chrome --app= https://example.com firefox --ssb= https://example.com
Hi everyone, it's Quang from WebCatalog, Certainly, if the built-in "install-as-app" of major browsers work well for you, then it's great. WebCatalog tries to make the concept simpler and more accessible to average users. Most people are familiar with the concepts of apps and app stores so our vision is to build an app store for web apps that gives users easy access to desktop apps (many not available elsewhere). A u…
1. Open any site. 2. Click on menu option at the top right of your browser. 3. Add to home screen (select open as window)
Am I missing something? My desktop computer doesn't have a "home screen" and I don't see anything like this option in Chrome or Firefox.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-site-specific-browser-...
This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.
Do we need to link to that famous Dropbox comment again? Sometimes convenience can be enough.
Im doing something that is based on browsers for instance, but the end product diverge quite a bit from traditional browsers and if they try to play the catchup game, i have at least a 2-year window of opportunity.
Remember PhantomJS? And Phantom was actually providing something browsers were not doing at the time.
It has no real distinct features from what browsers already do right now, and whatever way they make it easy to use, if the product by some change get traction, it will be easy for them to just ship with that feature built it.
It may provide some value on convenience, but its easily copiable by a competitor that is deployed everywhere, which is a big threat to their bussiness model.
This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.
Do we need to link to that famous Dropbox comment again? Sometimes convenience can be enough.