diff --git a/blog/posts/pwa-vs-iwa.md b/blog/posts/pwa-vs-iwa.md index de4e596b..92319562 100644 --- a/blog/posts/pwa-vs-iwa.md +++ b/blog/posts/pwa-vs-iwa.md @@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ So why isn't every app shipping as a PWA? The answer is an age old problem with A typical native app is downloaded onto your computer and only updates when the developers push an update out, and there's usually a process of checks and verification before that happens, like Apple's [App Review](https://developer.apple.com/distribute/app-review/) and the Google Play [review process](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9859455?hl=en). Plus it's much more difficult to only target a specific person, like someone with access to the servers that serve the HTML, CSS, and Javascript could do. -Web Packaging is a specification that allows web content to be distributed offline outside of a browser, much like a traditional app. It can be signed just like a regular app too, allowing you to verify that it came from the proper place and hasn't been modified. - -Isolated Web Apps (IWA) build on the work done on PWAs and [Web Packaging](https://github.com/WICG/webpackage). +Isolated Web Apps (IWA) build on the work done on PWAs and [Web Packaging](https://github.com/WICG/webpackage). They are a specification that allows web content to be distributed offline outside of a browser, much like a traditional app. It can be signed just like a regular app too, allowing you to verify that it came from the proper place and hasn't been modified. There are some [criticisms](https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/842#issuecomment-1989631915) of IWAs, at least in their current form. It'll be a long process of iterating on the design before a version of this idea that's secure and available across browsers.