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...

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johnjansen
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

johnjansen

Microsoft

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

Rohit Yadav

Bronze Contributor

Apr 19, 2021

Dare you speak that! Do you know how senior he is in the team? He is working on the browser and clearly knows a lot better than you.

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