{"id":18314,"date":"2017-07-12T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18314"},"modified":"2017-07-12T10:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:44:55","slug":"using-workflow-as-a-site-specific-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/12\/using-workflow-as-a-site-specific-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Workflow as a Site-Specific Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2017\/07\/workflow-site-specific-browser\/\">Michael Rockwell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/initialcharge.net\/2017\/07\/workflow-site-specific-browser\/\">\n<p>Of course, you could always just save these website shortcuts to your Home Screen and let them open up in Safari, but that makes for a pretty mediocre experience. I want to treat these web apps like native applications and I don&rsquo;t want to be forced to close a browser tab when I&rsquo;m done using them &mdash; I <em>always<\/em> close my browser tabs when I&rsquo;m done with them, it&rsquo;s a sickness. But there is a solution and it&rsquo;s made possible because of every iOS power users&rsquo; favorite utility &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/workflow\/id915249334?mt=8&amp;uo=4&amp;at=11lctu\">Workflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To build these site-specific browsers, it just takes two simple actions &mdash; a URL action with the web app&rsquo;s address and the Show Web Page action. When run, Workflow will open up the URL in a Safari View Controller, which gives you access to your action extensions alongside forward, back, and refresh buttons.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There is one major caveat with these workflows &mdash; they don&rsquo;t scale well. You can use them while multitasking with native apps, but you can&rsquo;t run more than one of these site-specific workflows at a time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rockwell: Of course, you could always just save these website shortcuts to your Home Screen and let them open up in Safari, but that makes for a pretty mediocre experience. I want to treat these web apps like native applications and I don&rsquo;t want to be forced to close a browser tab when I&rsquo;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1472,96,1367],"class_list":["post-18314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-web","tag-workflow-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18315,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18314\/revisions\/18315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}