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That's pretty neat, sure, but you've also done a pretty good job proving @aclimatt right on a few points:

Broken back button: check. Broken scrolling: check. Broken accessibility: check.

A lot of that is platform dependent.

You'll have to weigh how much these affect overall user experience on various browsers and how it affects your business. I don't recommend people optimize for all platforms, because you will spend forever on it. It's perfectly fine to say "Ok, my site is only for iPhone users on iOS 10+ and Windows Edge 12+." or some limited subset of users.

It would be more honest to acknowledge the downsides, and say "this site is only for iOS 10 or IE Edge users without disabilities and who never use the back button".

I'm not convinced that introducing the limitations of native apps to a non-native platform is a benefit, or a feature that makes the non-native platform more competitive.

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