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Maximiliano Firtman
Personal blog · firt.devwebprogramming
Maximiliano Firtman's personal blog at firt.dev covers web and programming. Since 2020, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Maximiliano Firtman's blog covers PWA support and Safari/iOS WebKit features and bugs, such as iOS 15.4 beta notes. HN commenters cite it as a reference for what iOS supports for web apps.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Learn about Mobile and Web Development with Maximiliano Firtman's articles, notes and learning experiences. Progressive Web Apps, Web Performance, Android Apps, iOS Apps and more.
Most-linked posts?
- Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-01-31
- iOS PWA Compatibility (2023)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-21
- iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
What Hacker News says?
App makers (and often users!) want dedicated buttons for services or apps they use on their phone home screens or menus. Apple has put considerable effort into having a standardized workflow that most users understand when it comes to installing a mobile app on their device: you access it through their App Store. I would love for Progressive Web Apps to be normalized, and PWAs can do a lot, and you can also get a bu…
Comment linking /notes/pwa-ios/
on “US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission”Submitted Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS as a story · 254 points
HN discussionHere's the definitive list: https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/ None of those things are necessary to create a very full featured Tumblr web application. E.g. twitter works quite well on mobile web. Tumblr wants people to download the app for engagement purposes.
Comment linking /notes/pwa-ios/
on “Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right”Submitted Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNone of this is aimed at any individual Webkit developer. The state of Safari (stagnation and underinvestment) is on Apple, not on the team. Apple not taking feedback or taking it and it being completely pointless is well documented behavior. This guy... https://firt.dev/ ...has basically been doing Apple's job for ages. Testing releases, documenting endless bugs, providing feedback, usually leading to absolutely no…
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on “New WebKit features in Safari 15.4”Submitted Are you infringing a patent if you publish a PWA? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was following this and it did seem to appear in the beta -- I'm not sure whether it has been removed in the GA version listed here, or if they simply haven't mentioned it since it's perhaps a browser rather than WebKit feature? ... I assume WebKit has had support for this for a long time, since Safari on macOS has long supported push notifications. https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b
Comment linking /ios-15.4b
on “New WebKit features in Safari 15.4”Submitted Safari on iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 for PWA and Web Developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's hard to pick sides between two of the most hypocritical companies in the world. To start with, Apple. It's very much true that Apple has intentionally sabotaged Webkit's potential. By underinvesting, by neglect (not solving bugs, poor documentation) and by blocking a whole series of promising new web features, all under the disguise of "user privacy". It's not some unfounded wild claim. Somebody like Maximilian…
Comment linking /tags/ios/
on “Apple is not defending browser engine choice”Submitted iOS PWA Compatibility (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/
Comment linking /notes/pwa-ios/
on “Apple is not defending browser engine choice”Submitted Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSorry, should have included that: https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi... Basically: It’s a way to verify that an app represents your site and then that app can open up the PWA inside it (a bit tricky to explain, but it’s great if one wants to be in the store and/or have an existing non-PWA app that one wants to upgrade to a PWA) More info: https://firt.dev/pwa-playstore
Comment linking /pwa-playstore
on “Firefox not planning on supporting PWA”Submitted Progressive Web Apps in 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's coming soon! https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b
Comment linking /ios-15.4b
on “App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee”Submitted iOS Progressive Web App (PWA) Compatibility as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- localStorage is broken in Safari 14.1 (the latest version) on macOS [1] - Apple added support for blob.stream() in Safari 14.1 but calling the function causes a null pointer exception and crashes the renderer process [2] - Read this summary of Safari changes in iOS 14.5 (released a few weeks ago, and without an official changelog for nearly a week) and tell me that Apple isn't trying to kill PWAs through neglect […
Comment linking /ios-14.5/
on “Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash””Submitted iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPWA support is improving, though. https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b (that post is based on a beta, it’s possible noted bugs will be fixed already, though this is Apple we’re talking about…)
Comment linking /ios-15.4b
on “Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under proposed EU rules”Submitted iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's the link to the section: https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b#web-push-notifications-on-ios－wit... > 1- It's a disabled-by-default experiment at this time > 2- The APIs are there, but they are not working
Comment linking /ios-15.4b
on “Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that frustrate you”Submitted Think Lazy (open letter to the Safari team) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn fact, Steve Job’s WWDC 2007 launch, his “one more thing” for iPhone was that you could develop and distribute apps, web apps with icons using iPhone APIs: Web 2.0 + AJAX, integrate w/ iPhone services, instant distribution, easy to update, secure ... Apple originally intended the iPhone to be open in this way, for HTML5 apps you’d get from anywhere. Similar to Palm Pre, and other devices of the time. There was no…
Comment linking /pwa-2021/
on “Parler Blocked on Apple's App Store After Capitol Riot Review”Submitted Is the Phone Gap closed in 2020? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBetter PWA support on iOS https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b
Comment linking /ios-15.4b
on “Ask HN: Thoughts on PWAs (Progressive Web Apps)?”This article seems prompted by: > Apple finally acknowledged the name "Progressive Web App" and the platform as an alternative to the App Store. It's not how we all were expecting this to happen, but at least it's a start. No one from the WebKit and Safari teams is talking about PWAs; Apple's lawyers defined PWAs and their compatibility on iOS and iPadOS as evidence against App Store monopoly to the Australian Compe…
Comment linking /ios-14.5/
on “Do App Store policies harm developers? Is the web a credible alternative?”> Apple never supported PWAs. That's not really correct. "PWAs" actually just describe a suite of APIs, most of which Apple supports: https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/ . The biggest "missing link" has been support for push notifications, which iOS 16.4 added: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23603042/apple-push-notif...
Comment linking /notes/pwa-ios/
on “Prisoners of Google Android Development”
