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Major work, as in, changing the dialog for installing the home screen icon from "Yes/No" into "Yes/No/Don't Ask Again"?



Major work as in making this a proper cross browser standard that results in people actually being able to use it instead of just talking about maybe using it some day when it stops sucking this much. The sad state of PWA is that if Chrome were to drop support for it tomorrow, very few people would even notice this and very few applications would stop working.

My impression is that devloping and testing this stuff is unnecessarily hard. The UI experience around this is flaky/inconsistent even when it works and the difference between this being broken/misconfigured or a user error is basically very hard to pin down. IMHO this is completely unusable in its current form and that's probably the main reason basically most people that ought to be getting some value out of this are either unaware it exists because they've actually never seen a real world example on a real world website adding any value whatsoever; or have made the conscious decision it's not worth their time (because of all the above). I'm in the latter category. I would use it but in its current form that's not something I can sell to a product manager.




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