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.
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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
Ok, I'll own up to being the source of the above quote. But to be clear I wasn't quibbling about the name: I think it's useful. To me, being "basically a website" is a v good thing, and that's what I was trying to convey (in the context of a 5 min talk)
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Replying to @nickautomatic @slightlylate and
yes, indeed. That's the beautiful thing about PWAs. You hit the nail on the head.
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Replying to @brucel @nickautomatic and
everything “is just a website”. The rest is embellishments.
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Replying to @johnallsopp @brucel and
Definitely true when it comes to all the varieties of web thing, but I think "just a website" is useful to contrast with native apps. As in: "It's always up-to-date (because it's really just a website)" "It's easily shareable via URL (because it's really just a website)" ...etc.
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I think this is true.
Back in the early Ember days, most SPAs were "native apps in the web" with little support for good URLs etc.
It was a big deal when we got out there and pushed people to design web apps to feel like web sites.
So awesome that it's standard now. 
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