It looks great, I like it. Well done! :)

Here is the list of PWA capabilities. This is discounting those that Google has on their site (web dev)

https://whatpwacando.today/

PWA has always supported all of that. It's just that companies like to spy on your data more by making native apps

Why is this called 2.0? PWA without offline is assumed to be 1.0?

I don't like them randomly defining and attributing version numbers to standards. These versions don't exist. And they don't even define them.

PWA and offline capability has been around for a while. PWA typically raises the question of offline capability. That's not a new thing or a new standard.

While it might not work for everything, I have a number of sites that are used for field work that would benefit from these approaches. Things like dashboards an configuration tools.

Arguably, the tools should be desktop apps, or something of the like, but the reality is that using PWAs in this way is easier for everyone (the developer, the distributor, the user).

Well described. Thanks for sharing 😊

Lol, thank you. It is my personal homage to how free the fediverse is, and that the responsibility of exposing oneself to the net rests upon themselves or the guardian.

Just wanted to say I adore your username

Microsoft, one of the largest offenders, over here caring exactly zero shits.

FINALLY!

Given the nature of Steam and previous executed data extraction, I'm scared installing and running niche/indie games now. Windows lacks

A unified GUI framework hasn't happened yet, not between OSes, nor really within each OS ecosystem. I'm not hopeful about leaps in native interoperability in that regard.

Web tech interoperability is so established and widely used, packaging and running those natively seems much more viable than any hope for supposed native long term efforts.

Not everything will be covered by web tech. But for many things, it's already viable, and exploring native integration of these web technologies is interesting.

Correct. The degree that a native app could invade your privacy on the desktop is insane. For mobile, thanks to sandboxing it has a much smaller surface but still annoying nonetheless when an app could just be a web. Especially if all they do is just a glorified form filing app.

So basically dev develop app to have more control over you which simple website simply not provides

Mozillas vision of phone apps was this. It's one reason PWAs were made and part of why WASM is where it is. One of the largest barriers to adoption against it is that apps allow for tight control from the dev, not just technically, but also from a legal standpoint. For that reason I would rather have PWAs myself, a lot of apps actually suck and are just full of dark patterns.

Now this puts a question for native platform. If web technology managed to get more and more approval to get native access like Web Bluetooth, should we move apps to the web instead? We have web authn as secure hardware backed secret storage. Personally, I like it if everything is not a native app.

The other extreme is if the native platform provides the same interoperability and standard as web. Would you prefer every complex web to be a sandboxed native app instead? Say a youtube streaming desktop app.

I've been sharing this far and wide today, and bookmarked as a must-have resource. Absolutely fantastic article, with reams of modern best practices. Love to see it!

CSS sucks because you dont bother memorising it

There FTFY

Feels like CSS: now you have to know which components are already accessible and what aren't. In CSS you need to memorise a bunch of stuff without understanding it either.

also Japan: "what's a11y?"

(look at the title)

Super helpful

That joy when half the content of the page is in an embedded .png file that you can neither read with a screen reader nor select/translate...

That's weird, you probably could if you lived there

Can't access

Looks to me like it's mostly paywalled.

Anyway, the maximalist web design trend that's popular there is really interesting. I like how low-techish it looks. But it is really hard to scan, especially when you're only sorta-kinda able to read the language anyway.