Progressive Web App

A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser. Functionality includes working offline, push notifications, and device hardware access, enabling creating user experiences similar to native applications on desktop and mobile devices. Since a progressive web app is a type of webpage or website known as a web application, there is no requirement for developers or users to install web apps via digital distribution systems like Apple App Store or Google Play. (From Wikipedia)

A minimal Web Push example

Web push notifications allow users to opt-in to asynchronous messages from a server to a web application. The message can be sent at any time, even when the web application or the web browser is inactive. This W3C standard, based on the HTTP/2 protocol, is now supported by Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and Safari – but not by iOS.

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00February 8, 2020|Browser, Cloud, JavaScript, Progressive Web App, PWA, Web Design|

What web can do: a mobile speech-to-speech translator

In the 70s and 80s, some people thought that you could soon travel the world with a portable computer, only the size of a backpack, that would translate any spoken utterance to any other language. Nowadays, with the Google Translate App, you can easily do this with any mobile device. But is this also possible using only HTML, CSS, and Javascript?

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:50-04:00October 28, 2019|Device Independent, HTML5, Machine Translation, Progressive Web App, PWA, Speech Recognition, Speech-To-Speech, Text-To-Speech|

What web can do today

Yesterday I tried to create a Progressive Web App displaying an artificial horizon over a live camera view and was wondering if this would be possible with a modern mobile web browser. During the research, I stumbled over several websites which you can use to test the hardware capabilities and their software support in web browsers and I wanted to share some links.

Michael Koch2020-04-17T17:49:51-04:00September 26, 2019|Device Independent, HTML5, Progressive Web App, PWA, Web Design, WebGL|