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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon vaadin

Please explain why PWA installation prompt only works on Chrome

Open mvysny opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

The file tutorial-pwa-introduction.asciidoc currently says

PWA installation prompts are a feature only available for Chromium-based browsers. This feature is being phased out in later version of Vaadin in favor of a more universal user experience.

The documentation is short and uninformative, it doesn't answer the following questions:

Why was the PWA installation prompt never implemented in other browsers? Is it implemented in Edge? Safari? Why Firefox decided to remove this functionality?

There's more info at https://github.com/vaadin/flow/issues/8038 but the discussion is lengthy&technical.

mvysny avatar Jun 22 '20 11:06 mvysny

@mvysny , take a look at the Distribution and support for PWAs by platform section on Vaadin July 2020 edition blog post on the The state of progressive web applications.

rolandoisidoro avatar Jul 15 '20 10:07 rolandoisidoro