# Cordova platform browser and PWA

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866>\
**Category:** Ionic Framework\
**Created:** [January 31, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866 "2019-01-31T11:23:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![badpenguin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/badpenguin/32/98075_2.png) [@badpenguin](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/badpenguin)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866/1 "2019-01-31T11:23:35Z")

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Is it not clear to me how to use camera and media capture for PWA.  
Should i use cordova platform “browser” ?  
Or ionic native provide something different?  
Or i’ve just to implement it in HTML5 myself?

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**Author:** ![Sujan12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sujan12/32/108395_2.png) [@Sujan12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Sujan12)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866/2 "2019-01-31T12:46:28Z")

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Ionic Native would be for Cordova’s `browser` platform, but not that many plugins _really_ support it.  
Using HTML5 would be an alternative solution.  
There is also Ionic Capacitor, a replacement for Cordova, which has better/different support for web as a build target via PWAs. Worth looking into.

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**Author:** ![badpenguin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/badpenguin/32/98075_2.png) [@badpenguin](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/badpenguin)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866/3 "2019-01-31T13:27:08Z")

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I tried capacitor a bit, but i’m not quite sure that they can reach the level of cordova in the short time.

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**Author:** ![Sujan12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/sujan12/32/108395_2.png) [@Sujan12](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Sujan12)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-platform-browser-and-pwa/154866/4 "2019-01-31T19:49:57Z")

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It is different in a few areas, but very capable. Capacitor could build on 10 years of learnings from Cordova 😉