Desktop webapps like Microsoft Edge
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I would like to know if the Desktop Team are working to Vivaldi users bring to us the desktop webapps like in Microsoft Edge.
Cheers!
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@javicmrs Progressive Web Apps (PWA) exist already.
You need to install if as PWA from the website which provides it by context menu of tab in tabbar. -
@javicmrs For install web app of Vivald forum the Tab context menu looks like
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@DoctorGTesting I tried but not in MacOS
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@javicmrs From where (URL) did you want to add such PWA?
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@DoctorGTesting Copilot; Google Photos; Threads; Gemeni; Whatsapp; Designer;...
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@javicmrs Perhaps i musunderstood your needs.
How do you add Desktop Webapps in browser Microsoft Edge?Could be that it works only with Microsoft Edge browsers.
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Edge's "apps" feature supports any webpage, not just a "PWA."
If you have a site that you use very often, perhaps you wish it had a dedicated shortcut on your taskbar, ran in its own window without any browser UI surrounding it, and had a custom app icon. This is what Edge lets you do.
For example, I use this feature to run Slack, because Slack's desktop app uses far more RAM than a single Edge tab. I have a dedicated icon on my taskbar, with the Slack icon. When clicked, a window opens without any extraneous browser UI, running mycompany.slack.com.
PWA implies the site itself implements certain features to leverage offline cache or background processing. However, Edge does not require this; it allows using any site as an "app." This means that, yes, the app may require an internet connection, because it is a webpage running inside a dedicated window. Slack, for example, is not useful without an internet connection. Offline support and background processing are not the goal.
I suggest anyone advocating for Vivaldi to support Edge features include images and examples, it helps avoid confusion. For example, in a different thread, I found people suggesting that named windows was impossible, until I included screenshots of Edge supporting exactly that feature.
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@cspotcode said in Desktop webapps like Microsoft Edge:
Edge's "apps" feature supports any webpage, not just a "PWA."
Ah, ok. Then i misunderstood.
I think creation of a App from every page is a nice feature users like to have. I voted for it now.
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@DoctorG, but isn't that what Vivaldi already does as well? I even have one for my GitHub Pages tool that I made that doesn't have anything telling the browser it should be a PWA.
For reference, here are a few of the pages I use the "PWA" mode with:
- My company's HR page that's used to plan holidays, check the pay slip and that sort of thing, which I doubt has a dedicated PWA mode
- https://outlook.com, which I know does have a dedicated PWA mode
- http://localhost:4200 on web apps that do not have a dedicated PWA mode
- https://bergamin.github.io/azure-devops-active-pr-hub, which also doesn't have a dedicated PWA mode
- MS Teams
- etc.
This feels like a bug in the Mac version of Vivaldi if it doesn't work and not a feature request.
