Progressive Web Applications

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Safari is widely used and the unavailability of service workers to help adapt to not having a network connection sounded like a deal breaker. However, using portable browser storage APIs and JavaScript should be enough to write progressive apps that would also work on Safari, right?

As Service Worker is a progressive enhancement we can still use it even though Safari doesn't support it yet.

Safari still supports AppCache which SW is designed to replace (AppCache has some unfixable problems) so although it doesn't have the richness of SW it still has some declarative offline support

Thanks for that. I have had building a trial progressive web app on my "I want to do list" for a while, so I am going to go for it.

FWIW Cordova/PhoneGap was certainly not intended to be anything more than temporary work around until the web caught up.

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