Is it because the workflow is for a student to log in to the app weeks ahead of time using a QR code a teacher supplies. And Safari on iPhones won't persist website data for more than a week, therefore preventing use cases like this from working as a web site?
Chris
Why is this an app? Why isn't it a webpage?
Why would you want it to take up space in your phone's app launcher. What can't be done through a web browser?
The BBC recently wrote this article about the UK government running a trial for GCSE students to receive their results using an app, rather than being given results in an envelope.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2e2z1y1pko
As is common for modern news outlets, they didn't link to their sources:
https://tst.issue-education-record.education.gov.uk/about/pupils-parents
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.gov.education.educationrecord
I am increasingly of the opinion that when writing CI scripts for platforms such as GitHub actions you shouldn't use that platform's features but just wrap a single largish bash script.
It is trivially runnable on your laptop, which is great for testing and debugging changes locally.
And you don't need to learn syntax and conventions that are only used by a single system.
I'd be interested to know why this approach is so unusual. Is it because actions from the marketplace don't mix well with this?
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The web on mobile
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Has someone decided that users accessing through a web browser on their phone expect a different navigational paradigm to users accessing through an app on their phone and why is that?
The app in the stores is just a website, but it's not the website a user gets unless they install the PWA.
The app screenshots match the 2nd URL
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.nationalrail.google
It's a strange state of affairs that both these URLs exist
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/live-trains/
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/app/start/?platform=pwa
The functionality is the same between them, except the first has a hamburger menu and the second has a bottom navigation bar. And if you do anything on the latter and refresh you'll end up with the first's URLs and navigation.
> Remember the YouTube paradox where the engineers made the site faster, but globally overall load times went _up_ because suddenly more people could use it?
Do you have any links to more information about this? I'm struggling to Google for it, because "YouTube" in the search makes Google think I want a video on YouTube rather than information about YouTube itself.
@owa great to meet you 😄
@cobalt is there a different term that I can use instead that would be more acceptable? I cannot change what I sent in my email but I can probably edit my post and I can change what I say in the future
@stevel I hope advances in self driving technology can lead to better automated collision avoidance in human driven cars.
If they're effective at saving lives and preventing injuries and with no genuine downsides then I'd support these particular technologies becoming mandatory.
I'm sorry about your seizure
I wrote a letter to my MP:
Dear Mr Docherty,
The case of the 2 children killed at a Wimbledon school by a driver driving off the road and through the fence has made the news again today as the driver has been found not guilty because of an unknown seizure disorder.
Quoting Det Ch Supt Clair Kelland: "Having carried out a detailed examination of her medical records, we know that she couldn’t have predicted or prevented the incident."
It may well be the case that the driver was not responsible, but I don't see similar situations as unpreventable or inevitable.
The car in the collision was a Land Rover Defender. It has two characteristics which I believe contributed to the 2 deaths and many others.
1. The bonnet is unusually tall. Bonnets of this shape have been shown through analysis of collisions to be more dangerous to pedestrians. Quoting an article about a US study (where access to car models in collision databases is easier to come by):
"Whatever their nose shape, pickups, SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45 percent more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 inches or less and a sloping profile, an IIHS study of nearly 18,000 pedestrian crashes found."
The Defender's bonnet height is 43 inches. Excessively tall bonnets will have an even worse affect on child pedestrians due to children being shorter than the average adult. Excessively tall bonnets are also more likely to push the pedestrian down rather than up in a collision. Being pushed down is a more dangerous scenario.
2. The car accelerates faster and with more horsepower than a contemporary UK car. It is well known that a pedestrian's chance of survival worsens dramatically the faster the car colliding into them is travelling. The faster a car accelerates, the faster it can reach fatal speeds.
The more horsepower and weight it has, the less affected it is by obstacles like fences, garden furniture and sickeningly in situations like this, other pedestrians.
I'm unclear on which configuration of Land Rover Defender was involved in this incident, so I can't quote its numbers. I see from Google that the Land Rover Defender 130 (2022 onwards) model has a 0-60mph time of 5.5-7.7 seconds, and a power of 295 to 493 bhp. In contrast a 2023 Ford Fiesta can have an acceleration as long as 14.5 seconds, and a horsepower as low as 69 bhp.
I don't believe either of these characteristics of car design can be justified for cars intended to be driven by members of the public on public roads.
As a member of parliament will you work to restrict the fatal excess that is endemic in modern luxury cars on the UK market? Perhaps by restricting the bonnet height, engine power and acceleration in cars available for sale?
I hope to hear your response before the general election.
Kind regards,
Chris Couzens
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@scaryboots I have some spare if you still need #emf2024
Thank you for discussing it, and explaining why something is necessary in that space.
> can you share your main motivation behind your request?
It's partly that I'm not interested in trying out the AI help. I've not had any issues with either the search on MDN, or searching MDN with Google.
And when opting out of ads my expectation was that the banner would disappear rather than be replaced.
It's not a big deal though, and I'm still a fan of MDN.
@iron @owa
Yep - you can connect a mouse to your phone via bluetooth or USBC, and then you get a cursor. I tried out on this website and Chrome and Firefox both work https://css-tricks.com/using-css-cursors/
Hey @MDN 👋​
I'm a paying user. How do I turn off the top banner ad?
When I select `Ad-Free Experience` in the [settings](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/settings) the banner ad changes to
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The nature of the ad changed, but it is still an ad.
Thanks for making the best web developer documentation.
@raulinbonn I have my own ulterior motive for preferring websites. I use desktop Linux which tends not to get official apps. I want web versions so I don't get excluded.
I also think a healthy web makes it easier to compete against Android and iOS as it reduces the app gap of a hypothetical 3rd OS.
@raulinbonn that's a good point. The web is constantly growing in capability and less and less can't be done as a website.
The biggest set of counterexamples I can think of are apps that rely on device features that aren't available to web browser. For example a fitness app that used the phone's pedometer (step counter), or an alternative calendar app that needs access to the user's calendar.
I particularly dislike when news websites and social media websites push apps as they are online experiences with text, images and video. This is something even old web browsers can handle very well.
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