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Replying to @jaffathecake @mountain_ghosts
I'm very happy to let the people who fought and argued for this capability name it. PWA it is.
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I wanted to call it "Tony", but they wouldn't let me.
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True story: "Prog web apps" is a back-formation. Every Monday,
@slightlylate would burst into the Chromium steering meeting yelling "when are you gonna make add to homescreen better"? Engineers would say "Probably Wednesday, Alex". After 2 years, "PWA! <eye-roll>", and it stuck.2 replies 3 retweets 19 likes -
True enough, anyway ;-)
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Replying to @slightlylate @wycats and
I should write up all these "untold histories of the web" one day...
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Replying to @brucel @slightlylate and
I can definitely verify that from the outside it seemed as though
@slightlylate was doing this. It was a big part of what we discussed on TAG when we were both on it.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Yeah, I think
@w3ctag got a preview of PWAs in...Jan '14? Earlier?2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @slightlylate @wycats and
Also, we only named it because describing or over and over and over again was getting super tedious. Needed something pithier when
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Replying to @slightlylate @wycats and
I found the original doc I wrote that described the PWA plan: August 2013.
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And the @w3ctag overview was Sept '13 (found the slides).
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