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possibly cmd+n to open it at the original site homepage. more instances seems like a good idea , yea

eirk changed the title to Allow multiple windows for web apps .
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    Brief Summary
    Allow an option to enable creating of new windows in web-apps

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    An option to enable new windows (like a checkbox) when creating web-apps. This will be really useful for some web-apps created using notion.so and google docs. and keeping that option off by default will avoid unnecessary bugs in other web apps (I guess). Please implement this I hope you've disabled these options for web apps and it's possible to implement it. Thanks in advance.

    • Vlad replied to this.

      Vlad

      This is the current web app creating panel. I guess it is possible to add a check box next to Floating on top or something to Enable new windows option i guess.

      This is what happens when you press CMD + N in Orion currently (It creates new instances of Orion) and unfortunately and reasonably this is not true for web apps by default.

      I hope similar thing can be enabled in web apps. And it will be useful for certain document editing web apps and so (Eg: Google Docs, Notion)
      Because currently you can only work with one document and if you want to open another one you have to backtrack and open it and loose the current one or open the other one in orion or any other browser (which i guess defeats the whole purpose of this being a separate app and all)

      So If a similar implementation of New windows was to be given as an option to web apps some web apps would certainly benefit from it. At least that's what I think. Hope I explained it well. Thanks for the reply.

          @"thuvasooriya"#p29149I understand thanks. In principle we do not want to add browser features to web apps to prevent them from turning into full browsers (and we would get there if we would start adding 'just one more thing').

          Perhaps you are looking to run multiple instanced of the web app, and maybe this should be handled at the system level.
          https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/run-multiple-copies-app-mac/

            Vlad Thank you for the reply and the resource. I understand your concern and was just suggesting something that would enhance a large segment of web apps (I guess).

            I'm not actually looking to create multiple instances. My intent was organizing and multitasking in web-apps.

            I could just create many new windows of Orion and open the site(notion or something) and put on focus mode (btw the focus mode is so awesome) and That's what I was doing before the web-apps anyway.

            And it wouldn't clutter the the bar below with many clones of same icon like in the ss below and it would also work nicely with mission control too unlike the below implementation of creating a new instance from terminal with

            do shell script "open -n /Applications/Simplenote.app"

            which is actually an awesome method (only worthwhile method from that list 😄) for edge cases.

            I was just expecting "one more" 😉 option when creating web-apps in this case creating new windows. (Which honestly I've tried to press CMD+N in majority of the web-apps I've created and later realized it wouldn't work and got frustrated.)

            But I also understand your goal of keeping the web app simple. That's why I suggested giving it as an option when creating and keeping it off by default like "Float on top" option. But if you consider that undermines the purpose of web-apps that's ok. I just feel like it's just a natural thing in most electron based implementation of apps too so it wouldn't be a far fetch to consider new windows as a natural feature of web-apps.

            At the end of the day it's up to you to envision the Orion and what the implementation of web apps is to be. I would be happy if it was available in web apps otherwise I'll flirt with Orion a bit more. Kudos 🙂

            • Vlad replied to this.

                thuvasooriya Thanks for understanding that when we do the first "one more thing" we create a precedent and have no way against defending adding much more. There are at least 10 other things that we already said no to for web apps , all sounding equally useful, but we have to draw the line somewhere otherwise web apps will converge back into a full browser as a matter of time. If this got 20+ upvotes that would be a different thing.

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                    When installing The Assistant (https://kagi.com/assistant) as a web app (Tools > Install This Site as an app), the app should allow multiple windows.

                    When The Assistant is installed as an app through Safari (using the Share menu > add to dock) multiple windows of the app can be spawned with ⌘ + N.

                    Having multiple windows of The Assistant allows managing and referencing multiple chats at the same time.

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