Windows 10: Microsoft is bringing native-like experience to Chrome PWAs

WinLatest · Feb 2, 2020

In order to help Google seamlessly integrate PWAs services with its browser, Microsoft is planning to add URL Protocol Handler Registration support for Progressive Web Apps. The integration is pretty neat and it aims to create a more engaging native-like experience.

According to engineers working at Microsoft Edge, registering a PWA as a protocol handler will open web apps when you click on a hyperlink with specific scheme such as mailto:// , ms-word:// or web+music:// in Google Chrome.

For example, if you click on a link of YouTube Music and its PWA is installed, your device will open YouTube Music web app. Microsoft says PWA as a protocol handler could help you in the following ways:

App integration: If you click on a link to a presentation (ms-powerpoint://deck2378465), the presentation automatically opens in PWA .

In a native chat app such as Telegram, if you receive a link to some magnet:// URL, the correct PWA is launched.

When a friend shares a link to a song and you click on it (web+music://songid=1234&time=0:13), the PWA will automatically launch instead of opening a new tab in the browser.

Like Android, Windows 10 also supports protocol handler and Microsoft has already registered msnews and msnnews links to open Microsoft News app, and Office is registered to handle both ms-officeapp and ms-getoffice.

Chrome PWAs to run on OS login

Microsoft is also working on another feature that would allow users to run PWAs on OS login. The feature is aimed at allowing high-engagement PWAs such as Outlook, chat apps and others to start running when Windows 10 boots.

This allows you to get important notifications from Windows 10 PWAs right away after login. The feature would be optional as Microsoft says it will let you disable auto-start feature for PWAs from the browser to reduce memory usage.

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Brink · Feb 2, 2020

Microsoft’s Bold Plan to Bring PWAs to Windows 10

I recently spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s plans to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to Windows 10. And I couldn’t be more excited about Microsoft’s plans to integrate PWAs with the desktop.

This is a milestone I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. But with the “Redstone 4” release—currently due in March or April 2018—Microsoft will formally support PWAs as a key platform feature of Windows 10, matching and in some ways exceeding what Google has done in Android.

Watching the industry embrace PWAs is exciting on a number of levels. This apps platform is a perfect storm of the right ideas at the right time, a spiritual combination of the cross-platform dreams for Java and the pervasive nature and openness of the web. I’ll be writing soon more about my broader take on the future of PWAs across all client platforms. But for now, I’d like to focus on that most unlikely of platform makers to embrace the future. Yes. Microsoft.

Given how much has changed at Microsoft in the Nadella era, maybe “unlikely” is the wrong word: The once-insular software giant has embraced open source and open standards at a pace that is both dizzying and confusing to folks like me who have followed Microsoft for decades. I’ll get there.

But in the meantime, the new Microsoft is racing forward into the 21st century. And part of its evolving platform strategy is embracing technologies that it did not invent or play any developmental role. It does this to make life easier on developers, which can now target a platform that works on virtually all modern devices, and to make things better for its own customers, who, to date, have been under-served by the Microsoft Store on Windows.

Nothing Burtoft and Gustafson told me is necessarily new information: Microsoft has quietly been trickling out its plans for PWAs over the past year and a half or so, and this is all public information. But aside from me and—OK, just me, basically—few people have really reported on these efforts. Which, by the way, are just about to go public in a big way.

So let’s discuss how Microsoft came to embrace PWAs and how it plans to integrate this technology into Windows 10. This will be news to many, I think...
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Aneri Ghosh · Feb 2, 2020

How to Install PWA on Lumia510 with Win10?

Joe, thanks for the other inputs.

The STRORE doesn't show PWA.

For example Twitter has both a native app for MS and a PWA. When look up the store, it only shows the native app, not the PWA.

So is it to be understood that the Twitter PWA is available by the web browser? If so, how does one pin it to the home screen? That is a more specific a Nokia Lumia 510 query.

Ramesh.Kumar · Feb 2, 2020

Chrome glitch

Hello Ralph,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

As per the issue description on one of the three users Chrome is not working.
I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

The account on which you are facing issue with Chrome, does it have the administrator permission?

Have you check with other browser? Was the result same?

Is the issue specific to only one application or facing issue with other application too?

First, I would suggest you to use Internet Explorer and see if it brings any difference.
Here are the steps through which you can use Internet Explorer.

Press the Windows key.

Type Internet Explorer in the search box.

Right click on Internet Explorer
(Desktop app).

Select Pint to task bar.

Try to use Internet Explorer from there and see if it brings any difference.

If you still want to use Chrome then I would suggest you to open the application Chrome in administrator mode and see if it brings any difference. Here are the steps through which you can open Chrome in Administrator mode.

Press the Windows key or click on Start icon.

Type Google Chrome.

Right click on Google Chrome and select the option to Run As Administrator.

If everything works fine by running chrome in administrator mode then you may pin it to the task bar.

Hope this would help. If issue still persists post back with current status of your computer and result of the proposed suggestion, we will be happy to assist you.

Regards,

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