Web apps feel flimsy because of scroll wonkiness
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Native apps feel solid because they don't have left to right wonkiness. Yes, yep. The the problem the the inherent problem with mobile browsers and putting something on a mobile web page is that there's many different ways that you can make that thing scroll in ways that you don't want it to.
Episode 193: Helpful Little Wizards (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:01:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Many people dislike PWAs because mobile web pages rubber-band and scroll in unwanted directions, which breaks the illusion of a solid app. Native apps have no viewport to wander around in. Eliminate that wonkiness and the browser is actually a nice platform, since media keeps playing with the screen off.
Not in the audio. The background-playback point comes from Dave's turn at 01:03:34.