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MaxLeiter on July 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is...

Offline support and push notifications require service workers (or some other API that doesn't exist yet[1])

And for prompting installation, I think the author wants it to appear native.

(Apple does have their own notification API but it requires an account).

gregblass on July 27, 2017 [–]

Telling your users how to add your app to the home screen should not be a thing. It makes your product look unprofessional. Prompting a user who has used the web app a bunch of times should be a thing on iOS like it is on Android.

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