alt Hacker NewsOh cool, I was wondering about this.
Is there not much PWA stuff for desktop or... does it not matter since you can just pin tabs?
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dankwizard • yesterday at 11:38 PM
Because they'd rather wrap it in Electron and farm system telemetry at that point.
candiddevmike • today at 1:17 AM
PWAs work well on Desktops, you can install them on Chrome etc and they show up as native apps in Linux and Windows (opening in a chrome window, minus any address bar etc, at least). If you already have a PWA, I don't know what Electron would give you.
You can also ship PWAs on the Microsoft Store and allow Windows 11 folks to natively install them (for an example/shameless plug: https://homechart.app).
I think comparisons with desktop browsers will be interesting! I intend to make this configurable and let people choose browsers and browser versions, including desktop browsers.