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Can Audiotool be a PWA? Why isn’t it?

Apollo · started 2019-03-01 01:41 · updated 2019-06-20 21:19

I've been hearing a lot about Google/Chrome's push to make the web a faster and more widely adopted platform through Progressive Web Apps. Both on mobile and desktop (currently only Chrome OS and Windows, if I understand correctly), these apps are just optimized webpages, that can be "installed" to the device. Namely, they can be optimized for offline support, but there are also immense benefits for their performance and speed.

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I'm still learning, so I'm not sure if this would benefit Audiotool in anyway. Perhaps it might be a solution to some storage problems for offline?? But, granted the developers went to the Google Developer Conference recently, I doubt this is something they haven't considered/come across. I'm honestly just trying to spark discussion and see where it goes.

If you're into this stuff, what do you think?

Comments (7)

Known As I
2019-03-01 20:51 · 2019-03-01

I currently don't have the time to dive into this, but it sounds quite interesting.

But after skimming through some pages I'm still unsure what the main benefit is, though. I didn't find any specification or up-to-date support matrix. All features listed seem to be available for current browsers in classic mode.

Overall I'd like to see more technical information than marketing. Especially HOW they achieve the claimed:

  • "performance" (Workers and Webassembly already work in browsers)
  • "offline support" (Local storage and Service Workers already exist)
  • "system integration" (apart from some Hi-res-Icons and the lack of the browser controls at the top of the page, I didn't see any new feature. The native system doesn't expose any new interfaces to the app.)

For me they mostly seem to be bookmarks to a naked single tab browser window. What am I missing?

Apollo · reply
2019-03-01 20:58 · 2019-03-01

To be honest, I haven't dove into this much either, but I guess we've arrived at some of the same conclusions. I'll have to do some more digging though. I thought someone might be able to shed some more light on the subject than I could've gotten into alone.

anonymous user
2019-03-05 13:56 · 2019-03-05

it will never be a pwa lmao

Apollo · reply
2019-03-05 15:20 · 2019-03-05

how come?

anonymous user · reply
2019-03-05 16:41 · 2019-03-05

Andre, i know you're being sarcastic.

kurp
2019-03-06 20:46 · 2019-03-06

sounds like a ton of work lol, audio tool booster already exists which is why if i was a dev i would be like "oops my house is on fire, gotta do it later"

kurp · reply
2019-06-20 21:19 · 2019-06-20

lol i love u kurp