E.g., desktop PWAs? What about storage limits? Iteration on Push Notifications? Market success and case studies? All in the future.
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As insurgents we were gluing together bits and bobs organisationally, hoping nobody noticed until such time as it "worked" and was credible.
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Talking with early partners was challenging. They all had mobile, responsive websites, and trying to explain SWs and A2HS, etc. didn't work
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You literally had to drag them through each and every step in the user journey and hope they "got" it.
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Fortuitously,
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Frances & I sat down to come up with a more compact way to talk about A2HS+SW+Push+etc. as prep. Result? Blog post: https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/ …
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This wasn't an official Google thing (though I'm an employee). Many on the team hate(d) the name. I only ever argued for it as least-worst.
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Lots of folks argued we didn't need it, should be something else, etc....then Flipkart & CDS '15 came around:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcICcHeQY02XLvoGL34rZFWZn …
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Needing to talk about what we had delivered over and over again was very clarifying. Made plain that we needed a name; "PWA" stuck.
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There's a lot more to the story -- how MSFT got behind PWAs, Samsung & Opera's contributions, etc -- but that covers how we got to "PWA"
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We tried for months to explain to partners and developers that it was "websites, but more like apps", etc. Didn't stick; needed a hook.
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