Yesterday we’ve reported Microsoft is looking to make PWAs autorun at Startup on Windows, here is about another development that is taking place for Web Apps. Google is experimenting with how an installed PWA looks like when a tab strip is enabled.
While a Web App window itself is a standalone one, by adding a tabbed mode/interface, the app interface with tabs, without URL bar looks like a web browser again, which Chromium team talked in the past on the name Tabbed Application mode. The feature is currently available behind a flag for testing in the latest Canary version 81.0.4023.0.
The flag available for Mac, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS provides this description for the feature “Experimental UI for exploring what PWA windows would look like with a tab strip”.
We’ve recently covered Chrome is exploring to offer back and reload buttons for PWAs with “Desktop PWAs minimal-UI” flag and work to improve Web Apps being continued by Chromium team.
On the other hand, Google is continuing its work on the WebUI Tab strip on Windows, which it has brought from Chrome OS. If you enable this feature, you can able to look at the preview of all tabs when you click on the tab counter icon on the toolbar. The Chrome tab strip UI isn’t looking good for regular usage in our opinion.
More on Chrome PWAs:
Chrome now displays Back and Reload buttons for PWAs
Chrome is turning tabs in focus mode into PWAs
Chrome to bring Tabbed Application Mode for PWAs
Chrome 75: Install Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) from Omnibox
Chrome to Show Intent Picker when PWAs are Installed on desktop
