The iPad’s Sweet Solution

Good take by Federico Viticci at MacStories:

In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, I’ve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps I’m using – the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences – aren’t native iPad apps.

They’re web apps.

Great desktop web apps are also great on the iPad, especially when using a connected keyboard.

One example: I’ve been running GitHub Codespaces in a browser on my iPad a ton this year. It’s really great for reviewing Pull Requests, running a console, and making some light code changes. Plus I can add it to my home screen to remove any Safari browser chrome from around the window. It’s really quite amazing that this is even possible.