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		the_gipsy on March 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Ap... Good luck getting your app added to the home screen. It only works through safari, so chrome or firefox users are ruled out, and it's hidden under some "bookmark" or "share" menu that is too difficult to discover.

pfundstein on March 26, 2020 [–]

Safari is the only browser on iOS because Firefox and Chrome are forced to use the Safari engine due to "security reasons".

43920 on March 27, 2020 | [–]

The issue is that if you're using the Firefox or Chrome apps (which are the same rendering engine underneath), they aren't allowed to implement the "add to home screen" action in their UI.

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