Implemented Ensure compliance as a Progressive Web App

[Mouth]

Ref: https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/

Progressive Web Apps

A new way to deliver amazing user experiences on the web.

PWA CHECKLIST

Progressive Web Apps are user experiences that have the reach of the web, and are:

• Reliable - Load instantly and never show the downasaur, even in uncertain network conditions.
• Fast - Respond quickly to user interactions with silky smooth animations and no janky scrolling.
• Engaging - Feel like a natural app on the device, with an immersive user experience.

This new level of quality allows Progressive Web Apps to earn a place on the user's home screen.

 

[Fred.]

It's the best invention since the wheel!
I'm learning more every day, Some day I will (hopefully) be able to build one.

 

[Recep Baltaş]

This is the second thing XenForo needs to implement. The first thing is AMP.

 

[TimFL]

This is the second thing XenForo needs to implement. The first thing is AMP.

Do people even read about how stuff like AMP works before suggesting it? It wont work for XF, at least not without disabling half of the UI because AMP is very restrictive in that regard.

 

[Recep Baltaş]

Do people even read about how stuff like AMP works before suggesting it? It wont work for XF, at least not without disabling half of the UI because AMP is very restrictive in that regard.

Do people even go to Google Analytics and check how much of the traffic is generated by activelly contributing members and how much by people who visit their website for the fist time and will never post anything?

Do you have any idea about our traffic increase after we started using AMP in XenForo? Of course you don't. But you'll learn. Just crawl the forum a little bit

Who cares about the UI when all they want it to reach the information as fast as possible?

Please...

 

[TimFL]

Do people even go to Google Analytics and check how much of the traffic is generated by activelly contributing members and how much by people who visit their website for the fist time and will never post anything?

Do you have any idea about our traffic increase after we started using AMP in XenForo? Of course you don't. But you'll learn. Just crawl the forum a little bit

Who cares about the UI when all they want it to reach the information as fast as possible?

Please...

The devs have already shot down AMP cause it'd mean having barebones blank sites with no interactive UI elements, which would require users who want to interact with said sites to click a link for the full version.

 

[Recep Baltaş]

The devs have already shot down AMP.

Source?

 

[DragonByte Tech]

Since the community cannot reach a consensus about whether AMP would actively help or harm their site, I don't see why they would commit the dozens or hundreds of man-hours to implement it.

AMP would be best implemented either on a case-by-case basis for 3rd party article / CMS modifications or to XF2 as a whole by a 3rd party modification, IMO.


Fillip

 

[Ozzy47]

Source?

+1

 

[Chris D]

Only comment we've officially made is this, really:

Realistically, if we were to try to implement this, you'd likely be looking at an entirely differently styled page because:

• Markup limits and changes (see more below)
• Limits to some CSS rules (such as overflow)
• Limits of CSS length and inclusion method (50,000 bytes and inlined)

One sizable issue is the fact that <img> tags (and all other embeds) require explicit dimensions, which is generally something we don't track. Similarly, media embeds are often done a bit differently, though if they're just iframes they might be ok.

By way of an example, here's a blog entry: http://blog.luxuryrestaurantguide.com/2016/03/03/thefutureoffood3dprinting/

Here's the AMP version of it: http://blog.luxuryrestaurantguide.com/2016/03/03/thefutureoffood3dprinting/amp/

If you accept that it's going to be a very stripped down version of the page and potentially missing some of the standard components you'd see in posts (particularly if there's any sort of more advanced/interactive features added; spoilers would probably be a good example), then it may be doable, but it would still be a significant feature to add (likely requiring a different "view" type entirely).

Certainly not been shot down. It's under consideration for the future.

 

[dethfire]

This is the second thing XenForo needs to implement. The first thing is AMP.

AMP is now defunct with PWA rising.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-amp-web-standards-25374.html

 

[Casa Ivar]

So what is needed to create one of these Progressive Web Apps for XF2?

 

[Federico Luna]

So what is needed to create one of these Progressive Web Apps for XF2?

+1, have Devs made any comments?

 

[Ozzy47]

+1, have Devs made any comments?

About adding it to the core, sure:

Only comment we've officially made is this, really:

Certainly not been shot down. It's under consideration for the future.

 

[Wildcat Media]

I don't know how I feel about PWAs right now, but I already use an "add to home screen" feature ("add to desktop" on a computer) for the forums I manage, and it opens the forum in a browser window with no controls. It's just a matter of having good icons available and a small bit of code in the <head> of the document:

<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

That is plenty good enough for mobile use, and it preserves all the forum's features that way.

 

[Jointadventure]

I don't know how I feel about PWAs right now, but I already use an "add to home screen" feature ("add to desktop" on a computer) for the forums I manage, and it opens the forum in a browser window with no controls. It's just a matter of having good icons available and a small bit of code in the <head> of the document:

<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

That is plenty good enough for mobile use, and it preserves all the forum's features that way.

Which document?

 

[l3ta]

Someone on twitter just visited my site and asked whether there was an app for it.

 

[JamesBrown]

Someone on twitter just visited my site and asked whether there was an app for it.

I get asked a few times for an "App" seems most instances, when you get to specifics what they want is a shortcut on their home phone screen, tell them how to do that and they are happy they have an "App" :doh:

 

[l3ta]

I get asked a few times for an "App" seems most instances, when you get to specifics what they want is a shortcut on their home phone screen, tell them how to do that and they are happy they have an "App" :doh:

Hehe

 

[rdn]

Hoping for this to be included on XF 2.1 .