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um... what kind of person uses an acronym over and over through a long ass article without ever stating what the fuck that acronym stands for?
Its in the embedded tweet
Stands for progressive web app which is an app which uses web technologies. Can be both a web page and a mobile app on a phone. Can be added as an app to your phone through a browser rather than downloading it from an app store
And here was I thinking only Microsoft did that.
It's also not that uncommon of an acronym in web tech, all the first results when searching "PWA" are consistent and it's a very common way to refer to that technology. The term PWA has made the news in tech channels a few times before (like when Firefox discontinued support for PWA on desktop).
Even if they said "Progressive Web Apps" it would not have been immediatelly clear what that means for anyone who is not familiar with what PWA is. It's also not the only acronym they use in the article without explaining it (eg. "API", or "iOS" which is also an acronym on itself), it just so happens that it's likely not a well known one in this particular lemmy community where the article was posted. The author advertises himself as a writer dedicated to web technologies (PWA and Web Component in particular), so it would be silly if he has to explain what those are on every of his posts.
No, what's silly is to not follow the correct grammar of spelling out an acronym in full the first time. Microsoft does this all the time and you're left not being able to use the document because you have no idea what they're talking about, and they haven't linked to anything about it either. e.g. try Googling COM and let me know how you go with finding out what it means. You should never assume the reader knows what it is. It's gate-keeping.
3rd result for windows com was the Wikipedia page for component object model.
If you Google com programming Microsoft's documentation about it is the first