What's new in web apps

Web apps on Mac

• Add a website to dock, from file menu
• Copies website cookies from safari, so you stay logged in
  • Afterwhich the cookies diverge
  • Localstorage will not be copied
• Works with credential autofill
• Customizations
  • Set a web app manifest
    • <link rel="manifest" href="manifest.json>
  • Set toolbar items, or hide the toolbar: standalone display mode
  • Can customize name
  • Can override scope, which is the hostname of the webapp by default. That is, you can restrict the app to subsets of the domain.
  • Links opened with user.open will always open within the webapp
  • One time emailed links won’t work for auth, since it won’t open in the app

Notifications

• Standards based web push should just work