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TheShaunSaw
Aug 23, 2020Silver Contributor
What happened to back button and refresh button on YouTube PWA
I today installed YouTube PWA from the Microsoft Edge Canary channel and what I saw is the back and refresh buttons on the left of titlebar are missing. I only saw it on the YouTube PWA. Has anyone e...
- Aug 24, 2020
TheShaunSaw thanks for the feedback on this. It's actually by design at present. The YouTube manifest includes the displaymode property for "standalone" which the w3c spec indicates should not have an address bar nor other UI components, though browsers MAY include a "status bar" and a "back button". The displaymode that includes refresh and back is called "minimal-ui". I'm not sure why youtube opted for standalone.
I'll do some follow up with that, as well as possibly reconsider our design and start including the back button if nothing else...
-John
Gryphou
Sep 15, 2020Copper Contributor
TheShaunSaw @johnjansen eguifThis is not a solution, navigation becomes a real purge.
I'm not going to tell all sites to change their configuration...
The return arrow is a minimum for normal navigation.
For Youtube for example, if I want to go back to a channel, it's impossible without having to go back to the home page, it's ridiculous.
eguif
Sep 15, 2020Steel Contributor
Hello Gryphou
Of course, this is far from a solution
As I mentioned, alternatively you can use the F5 button to refresh the page
You mentioned that you just want to go back to the previous page
Again, alternatively you can go to edge://flags/#edge-backspace-key-navigate-page-back and activate this flag
After that, you can use the backspace button
- GryphouSep 15, 2020Copper Contributor
eguifWhat version of edge do you use ? I don't have this flag. I'm on the v85.0.564.51
- eguifSep 15, 2020Steel Contributor
Hello Gryphou
Probably this flag has not yet arrived in the stable version
I use the dev version 87.0.634.0
- cheeseleaderSep 16, 2020Steel Contributor
Really the PWAs now appear the to be stripped version of websites. They don't have the functionalities that you have in browsers and they don't have the elaborate feature set of native apps.
Ironic because they were supposed to be Best of Both Worlds.