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

> Contrast that with Android, where it's now entirely possible to make a PWA so deeply integrated into the OS that the average user can't even tell it's not a native app

Oh, but quite many will be able to tell after 5 seconds of using it. The rest will realize the moment the Internet connection drops temporarily.

Ajedi32 on July 27, 2017 [–]

> The rest will realize the moment the Internet connection drops temporarily.

Nope. A properly-written PWA will continue working just fine when the user goes offline, just like a native app would.

interpol_p on July 27, 2017 | [–]

Most native apps that rely on a web service backend are pretty unusable when the connection goes offline.

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