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What's new in web apps

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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