Bug 257806

Summary:

macOS Sonoma web apps don't correctly report `matchMedia('(display-mode: standalone)')`

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Thomas Steiner <tomac>

Component:

New Bugs

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED MOVED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

beidson, bfulgham, david_quesada, dvpdiner2, karlcow, luming_yin, steven, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 16

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

See Also:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257776

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Safari vs. Chrome	none

Description Thomas Steiner 2023-06-07 08:15:22 PDT

Created attachment 466620 [details]
Safari vs. Chrome

Go to https://sapphire-handy-butternut.glitch.me/. In the tab, it says the app is running in the tab. Add the app to the Dock and it should say it's running as a standalone web app, but it doesn't. Compare the behavior in Chrome (see screenshot).

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2023-06-07 09:58:16 PDT

<rdar://problem/110403186>

Comment 2 Darryl Pogue 2023-06-07 14:23:36 PDT

Possibly related to #257776 (exposing navigator.standalone on macOS)

Comment 3 Thomas Steiner 2023-06-08 03:46:53 PDT

FWIW, `navigator.standalone` is not standardized as far as I can tell: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator#navigator.standalone. There's no trace at an attempt to do so in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues?q=is%3Aissue+%28%22standalone%22+OR+%22navigator.standalone%22%29+ either.

Comment 4 Brady Eidson 2023-06-08 09:44:17 PDT

Thanks for trying out web apps on macOS. We appreciate the testing and feedback.

With my Apple hat on:
The cause of this particular issue in the first macOS Sonoma developer seed isn't in WebKit, but rather in Apple's hosting application.
We look forward to developers continuing to try out the feature in future seeds.

With my WebKit hat on:
The appropriate "webkit.org bug accounting" step here is to close as invalid.

Comment 5 Brent Fulgham 2023-06-08 12:31:35 PDT

I'm adjusting the status to MOVED because this is a real issue, it's just not one that can be fixed in the WebKit Open Source code.

The work is being done under <rdar://problem/110403186> in the appropriate part of the system.

Comment 6 Thomas Steiner 2023-06-09 04:33:24 PDT

Thanks for working on this at the relevant level then. Glad you agree it's something that needs fixing. Please also see https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1092#issuecomment-1584312331 for some relevant side notes.

Comment 7 Brent Fulgham 2023-06-09 09:08:05 PDT

We will update this bugzilla as soon as a beta is available with the correct behavior.

Comment 8 Luming Yin 2023-07-05 12:01:31 PDT

Thank you for your bug report! This issue has been resolved in macOS Sonoma Beta 3 (23A5286g).