Eric Elliott

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Eric Elliott

Jul 27

That is my issue.

Yeah, I know this is possible. I use it in my app.

Greg Blass

Totally legit issue. I agree with most of your points wholeheartedly. I just didn’t agree with the way you made it sound like PWA’s are DOA because Apple isn’t 100% on board. They’re about 90% there, but the 10% remaining is really important to create a totally seamless user experience.

Eric Elliott

Jul 27

How could he make make such a bold statement when they don’t work on iOS, and may never work on iOS?

Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to future of the web

Greg Blass

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Hi, I’m the author. Apple pioneered the process of treating web apps as mobile apps when they first announced iOS. TLDR; On iOS, fall back to App Cache.

A lot of what you can accomplish with Service Workers already works on iOS using the App Cache API which Service Workers were designed to replace.

Why Composition is Harder with Classes

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