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It bypasses an app store model, you can install an app directly from a browser.

It's in their best interest to drag their feet on the issue and ensure that the pwa experience is disincentivised.

As for Firefox dropping pwa support I'm just not sure. It's probably maintenance cost.




One of the focus areas for this year is IndexedDB. And many of the other areas contain tests for service workers. I don't think it's accurate to say anyone's dragging their feet. Apple's done a 180 on PWAs in the past year. I also don't know what you mean about Firefox dropping pwa support. They've been hard at work improving the PWA scene for years now. And they're docs are the go-to for anyone working on one


For the Firefox but they’re probably talking about how desktop Firefox dropped PWA support a while ago, which is indeed odd and confusing.


> how desktop Firefox dropped PWA support a while ago

I keep seeing people make this claim. But what does that even mean? PWAs absolutely work on Firefox. What specific API was dropped?


Have they posted anywhere what kind of problems there are with indexDB?


It’s all in the dashboard. Here are the IndexedDB items:

https://wpt.fyi/results/IndexedDB?label=master&label=experim...




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