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Watney
Iron Contributor
Nov 26, 2019

Does “Install” make a website a PWA?

Thurrott.com reports today that Outlook.com and 365 OWA are converting to PWAs. If I “install” these sites will they be PWAs? Or do I need to wait until seeing the little arrow in the right hand end o...
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Watney
Iron Contributor
Nov 27, 2019

As a follow on, what are the benefits to "Install" a site versus open the site in a new tab? Thanks so much!

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HotCakeX
MVP
Nov 27, 2019

Watney 

Watney wrote:

As a follow on, what are the benefits to "Install" a site versus open the site in a new tab? Thanks so much!

 

 

it integrates into your system in the same way as a native app. In the case of Windows 10, this results in the app showing up in the Start menu and within the Settings app. it will have its own window, its own icon, minimal UI, the notifications coming from that app is supposed to be more integrated into the OS, so for example Whatsapp app from Windows store and Whatsapp web PWA installed from Edge insider should produce the same type of native notifications in the Windows 10 action center.

 

some of these features are still in development:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Need-more-info-about-Web-Apps-Identity-Proxy/m-p/1032125