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> On hacker news. You have the wrong expectations toward HN :) It's a lot less frustrating if you correct them. It's the community forum for a US-based, web-heavy startup accelerator, not a "hacker's corner" in terms of the original scene. The priorities and values and interests do differ.
Are there any forums more focused on being a "hacker's corner"?
Mozilla were ruined by big Google checks. How they could let this opportunity slip while electron became the ui for every major desktop app… such a shame.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...
Web apps seem more beneficial to the business than to the end user. Like who cares?
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lobste.rs is way more hacker and technical.
More than half of its front page is identical to HN's.
- Elon Musk's SpaceX Allows Investment from China
- We're Still Not Done with Jesus
- Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
Web apps seem more beneficial to the business than to the end user. Like who cares?
> Similarly, Rubino says web apps in Firefox will not use a minimal browser frame and will continue to show a main toolbar with address bar, extensions, bookmarks... Why is this so hard to understand? Why are they so against just making it work like it's supposed to? PWAs are actively useful and great and this is just frustrating.
It is frustrating to not know what url I have open. Some apps add info based on account .
Web apps seem more beneficial to the business than to the end user. Like who cares?
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I will mourn the lack of a non-Chrome browser engine with enough market share to prevent Chrome from unilaterally changing the web.
Someone can fork chromium if need be. There are at least a couple organizations with chromium-based browsers that have maintained their own engines in the past. Chromium is objectively very good so it’s not like it’s the time when we were left with IE5. The biggest problem now is Google trying to protect their ad business and the other Chromium browsers have been working around that. I don’t think we are nearly as ba…