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Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org)

submitted 9 months ago by libreom@lemmings.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc

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[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love how somehow electron is the lazy way while web apps isn’t, even though electron is just an executable with chromium bundled

[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And made significantly worse by a) locking you into using a restricted version of the browser made by a shitty company. b) laging noticeably behind that browser in development c) using custom apis for performing tasks already available in any browser like interacting with microphone, camera etc d) breaking perfectly working components that rely on OS apis in regular browsers like screen sharing, video acceleration, etc e) some of the above is partially responsible for Electron being totally broken on certain combinations of OS/WM/hardware where regular browsers work prefectly fine

I can keep going, but my point is all these pointless sacrifices are supposedly there to save dev team a bit of time instead of designing a properly working website and just using a web app or allocating some time to build a functional native app.

Fuck Google and fuck electron. It's just a pathetic attempt to mine more data from people using pseudo app.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I agree that ElectronJS is shit but the idea behind isn't bad. See tauri, it achieved the same thing but better

Source: I'm a developer forced to also work with electron