PROGRESSIVE WEB APPLICATION VERSION
APRIL 2022 PHOTO DIARYPHOTOGRAPHED BY WILLIAM MURPHY
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UPDATE 12 JULY 2022:
Over the years I have had problems when it cam to getting my sites to work well with mobile devices but within the last week I have found two possible solutions.
The First solution is Sparkle and the second solution is headless wordpress but bot require me to operate my own servers.
WordPress is a monolith application where the backend and the frontend parts are tightly wound together. The backend is where the management comes in, where you can create, edit, add, and delete content, including changing appearance configurations. In contrast, the frontend is responsible for displaying the content to the user.
Headless WordPress is the term used to describe decoupled WordPress. The backend (management) part is separate from the frontend part of the WordPress CMS. You can develop and manage the frontend as a standalone application with any frontend framework of your choice. The solution that I have developed is very basic and experimental but in the longterm it could be my best option.
Sparkle is a modern visual website design tool for everybody. Sparkle combines an all-in-one approach, an understandable interface and a focus on producing high performance and search engine optimized websites. Traditionally a website is built by drawing a layout in an image editor, preparing and exporting assets, and finally assembling and optimizing the website in a code and jargon-heavy context. This is a tedious, unsophisticated and error-prone job that Sparkle eliminates entirely.
Creating your website with Sparkle is easy, intuitive and fun. A drag-and-drop and highly visual interface lets you place elements on a page with full freedom. If you know how to use Keynote and Pages, you already know how to use Sparkle.
Over the years I have had problems when it cam to getting my sites to work well with mobile devices but within the last week I have found two possible solutions.
The First solution is Sparkle and the second solution is headless wordpress but bot require me to operate my own servers.
WordPress is a monolith application where the backend and the frontend parts are tightly wound together. The backend is where the management comes in, where you can create, edit, add, and delete content, including changing appearance configurations. In contrast, the frontend is responsible for displaying the content to the user.
Headless WordPress is the term used to describe decoupled WordPress. The backend (management) part is separate from the frontend part of the WordPress CMS. You can develop and manage the frontend as a standalone application with any frontend framework of your choice. The solution that I have developed is very basic and experimental but in the longterm it could be my best option.
Sparkle is a modern visual website design tool for everybody. Sparkle combines an all-in-one approach, an understandable interface and a focus on producing high performance and search engine optimized websites. Traditionally a website is built by drawing a layout in an image editor, preparing and exporting assets, and finally assembling and optimizing the website in a code and jargon-heavy context. This is a tedious, unsophisticated and error-prone job that Sparkle eliminates entirely.
Creating your website with Sparkle is easy, intuitive and fun. A drag-and-drop and highly visual interface lets you place elements on a page with full freedom. If you know how to use Keynote and Pages, you already know how to use Sparkle.
MARIAN GROTTO NCR LIMERICKENTRANCE TO THE LIMERICK EDUCATE TOGETHER SECONDARY SCHOOL
I was aware of this Marian Grotto but could never find it until today when I came across it by accident when I noticed a lady bring some flowers up a narrow path.
CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEARTTHE CRESCENT IN LIMERICK
The Jesuits moved into the current house in 1862 and started building the church in 1864.
It was begun during the rectorship of Fr. Thomas Kelly. The church was dedicated in 1869, although still unfinished in 1897. Designed by William Edward Corbett and supervised by Charles Geoghegan on the site of Crescent House.
It breaks the uniformity of The Crescent, giving it a focus and adding interest to the Georgian fabric. In 1867, Charles Lanyon and John McCurdy were the arbitrators and Sir John Benson the umpire, in the arbitration case of the failure of the roof of the new church. The builders were Mssers Ryan & Son. In 1900 William Henry Byrne made designs for a proposed façade.
It was begun during the rectorship of Fr. Thomas Kelly. The church was dedicated in 1869, although still unfinished in 1897. Designed by William Edward Corbett and supervised by Charles Geoghegan on the site of Crescent House.
It breaks the uniformity of The Crescent, giving it a focus and adding interest to the Georgian fabric. In 1867, Charles Lanyon and John McCurdy were the arbitrators and Sir John Benson the umpire, in the arbitration case of the failure of the roof of the new church. The builders were Mssers Ryan & Son. In 1900 William Henry Byrne made designs for a proposed façade.
ERIC'S PUB IN LIMERICK SAINT JOSEPH'S STREET - EMMET PLACE
This pub was owned and operated by Eric and Florence Lynch but unfortunately, for health reasons, they decided to close it in 1997. Florence and Eric, who passed away within a year of each other and were very well known and much liked in Limerick.
NORTH CAMPUS IN COUNTY CLARELIMERICK UNIVERSITY APRIL 2022
The arena hosted the 2010 Special Olympics Ireland Games, from 9 to 13 June. In one of the year's largest Irish sporting events, 1,900 Special Olympians from throughout Ireland participated in the games.
THE DOCK ROAD LIMERICK APRIL 2022
The main item of interest along dock road is the Bannatyne Mill building which is described as follows: A most imposing and rare industrial building with a larger than life expression of Victorian industrial architecture, erected to the designs of William Sidney Cox. The builders were McCarthy and Guerin …
THE HAVEN PUB WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1866 DAVIS STREET IN LIMERICK
According to Google Maps this pub, established in 1866, has ceased trading.
Back in 2016 I came across the following message online: :We at The Haven Bar would like to thank all our customers & friends for your understanding while we carry out the necessary works and renovations to the premises .Good news is that renovations are progressing well and we hope to be reopened soon. We would like to thank you all for your support and well wishes. Looking forward to seeing you soon."
The owner of McCoys John Costello was interviewed by a local newspaper and they indicated that they had the Limerick bar stripped, transported and rebuilt as an authentic Irish bar in Alicante.
Back in 2016 I came across the following message online: :We at The Haven Bar would like to thank all our customers & friends for your understanding while we carry out the necessary works and renovations to the premises .Good news is that renovations are progressing well and we hope to be reopened soon. We would like to thank you all for your support and well wishes. Looking forward to seeing you soon."
The owner of McCoys John Costello was interviewed by a local newspaper and they indicated that they had the Limerick bar stripped, transported and rebuilt as an authentic Irish bar in Alicante.
RICHARD RUSSELL MEMORIAL FOUNTAINHAS A TWIN IN BELFAST
OUR LADY OF THE ROSARYLIMERICK APRIL 2022
CLARE STREETEXPLORED IN APRIL 2022
THE BLACK BRIDGE AT PLASSEYPHOTOGRAPHED APRIL 2022
NEW WILD GEESE MUSEUM IN LIMERICK ST MUNCHIN'S CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD
KNOWN TO THE STUDENTS AS BROWN THOMASSCULPTURE AT LIMERICK UNIVERSITY
This site is currently being rebuilt in the background and the current major project is to switch to PWA during 2022 and this has proved to be more difficult than expected.
A progressive web application (PWA), commonly known as a progressive web app, is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices.
As of 2021, PWA features are supported to varying degrees by Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox for Android, and Microsoft Edge but not by Firefox for desktop.
Since a progressive web app is a type of webpage or website known as a web application, they do not require separate bundling or distribution. Developers can just publish the web application online, ensure that it meets baseline "installability requirements", and users will be able to add the application to their home screen. Publishing the app to digital distribution systems like Apple App Store or Google Play is optional.
In 2015, designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell coined the term "progressive web apps" to describe apps taking advantage of new features supported by modern browsers, including service workers and web app manifests, that let users upgrade web apps to progressive web applications in their native operating system (OS). Google then put significant efforts into promoting PWA development for Android. Firefox introduced support for service workers in 2016, and Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari followed in 2018, making service workers available on all major systems.
By 2019, PWAs were supported by desktop versions of most browsers, including Microsoft Edge (on Windows) and Google Chrome[ (on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS and Linux).
In December 2020, Firefox for desktop abandoned implementation of PWAs (specifically, removed the prototype "site-specific browser" configuration that had been available as an experimental feature). A Firefox architect noted: "The signal I hope we are sending is that PWA support is not coming to desktop Firefox anytime soon." Mozilla still plans to support PWAs on Android.
Since a progressive web app is a type of webpage or website known as a web application, they do not require separate bundling or distribution. In particular, there is no requirement for developers or users to install the web apps via digital distribution systems like Apple App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store or Samsung Galaxy Store. To varying degrees, the major app stores support publication of PWAs.[1] Google Play, Microsoft Store,[19] and Samsung Galaxy Store support PWAs, but Apple App Store does not. Microsoft Store publishes some qualifying PWAs automatically (even without app authors' request) after discovering them via Bing indexing.
Progressive web apps are all designed to work on any browser that is compliant with the appropriate web standards. As with other cross-platform solutions, the goal is to help developers build cross-platform apps more easily than they would with native apps. Progressive web apps employ the progressive enhancement web development strategy.
Some progressive web apps use an architectural approach called the App Shell Model.[ In this model, service workers store the Basic User Interface or "shell" of the responsive web design web application in the browser's offline cache. This model allows for PWAs to maintain native-like use with or without web connectivity. This can improve loading time, by providing an initial static frame, a layout or architecture into which content can be loaded progressively as well as dynamically.
The technical baseline criteria for a site to be considered a progressive web app and therefore "installable" by browsers were described by Russell in a follow-up post[23] and updated since:
Originate from a secure origin. Served over TLS and green padlock displays (no active mixed content). Progressive web apps must be served via HTTPS to ensure user privacy, security, and content authenticity.
Register a service worker with a fetch handler. Progressive web apps must use service workers to create programmable content caches. Unlike regular HTTP web cache, which caches content after the first use and then relies on various heuristics to guess when content is no longer needed, programmable caches can explicitly prefetch content in advance before it's used for the first time and explicitly discard it when it is no longer needed. This requirement helps pages to be accessible offline or on low quality networks.
Reference a web app manifest. The manifest must contain at least the five key properties: name or short_name, start_url, and display (with a value of standalone, fullscreen or minimal-ui), and icons (with 192px and a 512px versions). Information contained in manifest makes PWAs easily shareable via a URL, discoverable by a search engines, and alleviates complex installation procedures (but PWAs still can be listed in a third-party app store).[27] Furthermore, PWAs support native app-style interactions and navigation, including being added to home screen, displaying splashscreens, etc.
A progressive web application (PWA), commonly known as a progressive web app, is a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a standards-compliant browser, including both desktop and mobile devices.
As of 2021, PWA features are supported to varying degrees by Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox for Android, and Microsoft Edge but not by Firefox for desktop.
Since a progressive web app is a type of webpage or website known as a web application, they do not require separate bundling or distribution. Developers can just publish the web application online, ensure that it meets baseline "installability requirements", and users will be able to add the application to their home screen. Publishing the app to digital distribution systems like Apple App Store or Google Play is optional.
In 2015, designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell coined the term "progressive web apps" to describe apps taking advantage of new features supported by modern browsers, including service workers and web app manifests, that let users upgrade web apps to progressive web applications in their native operating system (OS). Google then put significant efforts into promoting PWA development for Android. Firefox introduced support for service workers in 2016, and Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari followed in 2018, making service workers available on all major systems.
By 2019, PWAs were supported by desktop versions of most browsers, including Microsoft Edge (on Windows) and Google Chrome[ (on Windows, macOS, Chrome OS and Linux).
In December 2020, Firefox for desktop abandoned implementation of PWAs (specifically, removed the prototype "site-specific browser" configuration that had been available as an experimental feature). A Firefox architect noted: "The signal I hope we are sending is that PWA support is not coming to desktop Firefox anytime soon." Mozilla still plans to support PWAs on Android.
Since a progressive web app is a type of webpage or website known as a web application, they do not require separate bundling or distribution. In particular, there is no requirement for developers or users to install the web apps via digital distribution systems like Apple App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store or Samsung Galaxy Store. To varying degrees, the major app stores support publication of PWAs.[1] Google Play, Microsoft Store,[19] and Samsung Galaxy Store support PWAs, but Apple App Store does not. Microsoft Store publishes some qualifying PWAs automatically (even without app authors' request) after discovering them via Bing indexing.
Progressive web apps are all designed to work on any browser that is compliant with the appropriate web standards. As with other cross-platform solutions, the goal is to help developers build cross-platform apps more easily than they would with native apps. Progressive web apps employ the progressive enhancement web development strategy.
Some progressive web apps use an architectural approach called the App Shell Model.[ In this model, service workers store the Basic User Interface or "shell" of the responsive web design web application in the browser's offline cache. This model allows for PWAs to maintain native-like use with or without web connectivity. This can improve loading time, by providing an initial static frame, a layout or architecture into which content can be loaded progressively as well as dynamically.
The technical baseline criteria for a site to be considered a progressive web app and therefore "installable" by browsers were described by Russell in a follow-up post[23] and updated since:
Originate from a secure origin. Served over TLS and green padlock displays (no active mixed content). Progressive web apps must be served via HTTPS to ensure user privacy, security, and content authenticity.
Register a service worker with a fetch handler. Progressive web apps must use service workers to create programmable content caches. Unlike regular HTTP web cache, which caches content after the first use and then relies on various heuristics to guess when content is no longer needed, programmable caches can explicitly prefetch content in advance before it's used for the first time and explicitly discard it when it is no longer needed. This requirement helps pages to be accessible offline or on low quality networks.
Reference a web app manifest. The manifest must contain at least the five key properties: name or short_name, start_url, and display (with a value of standalone, fullscreen or minimal-ui), and icons (with 192px and a 512px versions). Information contained in manifest makes PWAs easily shareable via a URL, discoverable by a search engines, and alleviates complex installation procedures (but PWAs still can be listed in a third-party app store).[27] Furthermore, PWAs support native app-style interactions and navigation, including being added to home screen, displaying splashscreens, etc.
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