Personally I really hope they don't add this. Imagine how annoying to have to decline a "please turn on notifications" on every news site on your phone (which you're spammed with on desktop).
My suspicion is that they internally treat it as their own third party browser - e.g. they don't want to give it more entitlements/capabilities than a Firefox or Chrome browser would have from the iOS app store.
My suspicion also is that they have had a bit more wood behind the arrow to get media APIs working lately due to pushing large third-party cloud game subscription services to use the browser, and the regulatory scrutiny that likely brought on.
> Web App Manifest improvements include ensuring the browser always fetches the manifest file during page load instead of when the user chooses to “Add to Home Screen” from the Share menu.
If you mean html/css prompts rather than actual browser prompts: they already do that.
They could use their differential privacy to only allow for sites that have a reasonable opt in rate, and global opt out.
It’s pretty annoying.
- the dialog is model
- it’s small, and drops down from the top (a “reverse toast”?)
- I frequently use screen zoom So am typically unable to see the top of any window because I’m reading content
- I click a link, the page loads, the “toast” drops down but I don’t see it, suddenly nothing on the page works
For 99% of sites which ask for permission the answer is “no”. So that’s a lot of annoying web sites.