Learning from W3C MiniApps

February 3, 2021 Leave a comment

Recently the W3C announced MiniApps:

MiniApp as a new form of mobile application, leveraging both Web technologies (especially CSS and JavaScript) as well as capabilities of native application.

I was a bit confused about them at first, and thought they were directly competing with PWAs. Thankfully Thomas Steiner chimed in, referring to a whole presentation on MiniApps he made.

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Enlightening stuff. A video recording + transcript are also available.

Learning from MiniApps: Slides →
Learning from MiniApps: Video + Transcript →

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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …) View more posts

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