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'Apple's Refusal To Support Progressive Web Apps is a Detriment To Future of the Web' (medium.com)

Posted by msmash on from the what's-happening dept.

From a blog post: Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) are one of the most exciting and innovative things happening in web development right now. PWAs enable you to use JavaScript to create a "Service Worker", which gives you all sorts of great features that you'd normally associate with native apps, like push notifications, offline support, and app loading screens -- but on the web! Awesome. Except for is one major problem -- While Google has embraced the technology and added support for it in Chrome for Android, Apple has abstained from adding support to mobile Safari. All they've done is say that it is "Under Consideration." Seemingly no discussion about it whatsoever.

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  1. Progressive Web Applications? by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm more in favor of Conservative Web Applications.

    1. Re:Progressive Web Applications? by harperska · · Score: 3, Funny

      What about alt-web applications?

  2. Re:Loading screens. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, apple needs to support this kick ass new technology so that websites can have splash screens. It's the least they can do after they killed off flash, the previous kick ass technology enabling the awesomeness of splash pages!

  3. Who would not want this? by clovis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this a way to bring back the features of IE6 and ActiveX controls, only now they can install themselves more easily?
    Who would not want this?

  4. PWM by DigiShaman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Progressive Web Malware

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    Life is not for the lazy.