You mean a PWA running on the desktop? I've never heard of such a thing, and doubt it would work even if it existed. Almost any real desktop app will need to access the file system, access a CLI, etc.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @jamonholmgren and
Very cool, but I doubt useful in practice. Only rarely will I want an app on my desktop, and those that I do will likely require disk access and other things a PWA won't be able to touch.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @jamonholmgren and
Disk (I still say it too; let's say filesystem) access is on the agenda: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/migration … (find "_File"). Red to get off ledger...
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Replying to @BrendanEich @jamonholmgren and
That sounds cool but also terrifying. A PWA having access to my file system? Obv it'd have to ask permission, and obv I'd click "no" unless I had a damn good reason. But surely that'll be a panacea for bad actors.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @jamonholmgren and
It's more of an install model, and you were game to install Electron apps...
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Replying to @BrendanEich @jamonholmgren and
For sure - installing an app on your computer is always a big deal, limited to apps you trust. But the idea of a PWA being one confirmation away from file system access seemed much worse. But from what you say it seems like that’s not how it would work.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @jamonholmgren and
I'm not sure how fs access will work. Maybe Alex can say.
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Replying to @BrendanEich @AdamRackis and
Our plan for filesystem access is incremental: start with single file read-write (for open-with situations), then onetime directory picker, then persistence. All user-mediated; very much how Web Bluetooth works.
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Replying to @slightlylate @BrendanEich and
And, like all the rest of this stuff, we're breaking up capabilities from the concept of installation. Why does that one click grant so much privilege? That's a bug.
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...and a bug the web's security model goes some distance to fix. More to do -- we need better permissions UI and API, e.g. for time-limiting grants -- but none of this is magic; only hard. Requires will.
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