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Do we need to link to that famous Dropbox comment again? Sometimes convenience can be enough.
Unrelated to the parent comment, but what is this Dropbox comment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16660140 is some discussion around it later.
Just mentioning two related programs in my mind: Franz ( https://meetfranz.com/ ) and nativefier ( https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier ).
Really, I see little value over these browsers with vertically stacked tabs. There's already free solutions out there, what's the added value? Workspaces are easy to replicate using Firefox's containerised tabs and the vertical tab structure can be replicated with something like Tree Style Tabs. The remaining minor improvements are nice to have but certainly not worth $20 in my opinion.
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.
You can sort-of replicate the behaviour by creating a shortcut to "chrome --app=https://www.example.com" for websites that don't offer it.
How does this compare to the below? google-chrome --app= https://example.com firefox --ssb= https://example.com
84.4MB AppImage, probably yet another electron wrapper. At least this one provides single runtime image for all apps.
Can you point to a viable alternative? Multiplatform by default, with the option to build rich reactive UI? Plus text editing with a sane document model (via ProseMirror etc)? Fast math rendering (via katex)?
If so I will happily jump ship! Even Microsoft's attempt at a react native for desktop excludes Linux so it's a non-starter. The Rust community seems to be interested in solving this problem, and I eagerly await their solution.
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.
Easy Accessibility is key.
This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.
As a dev, service workers are a PITA and getting them to work with with our products is a bit of a hit and miss. Installable / pinnable web apps are only available if the original web dev has made them available. Web catalog and electron wrappers are for people who want to wrap apps and sites that are not nor ally available.
This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has.
> This is trying to sell the concept of a chrome-less browser-window ("install as app"), a feature your browser already has. As a dev, service workers are a PITA and getting them to work with with our products is a bit of a hit and miss. Installable / pinnable web apps are only available if the original web dev has made them available. Web catalog and electron wrappers are for people who want to wrap apps and sites t…
google-chrome --app=https://example.com
firefox --ssb https://example.com (sadly requires enabling the ssb feature)
Sure, you can have a tool to create "desktop shortcuts" for the casual user, but this is not worthy of a commercial product.