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Discussion on: Is there any way to detect if a user "can go back" in PWAs (desktop PWA most specifically)

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Zack Dunn • Edited

There's a proposal to add field to the Web Manifest to hint that navigation should be shown that would work across devices. Here's a better thread. In the meantime, there is a CSS media query that you could use to determine when to show your navigation.

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Ben Halpern

I might be mistaken, but it seems like minimal-ui mode doesn't work on the desktop. It looks like standalone no matter which I use.