Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

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Fluid

#Mac #Mac Tools #Development Tools 19 social mentions

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Plain Text Sports

A personal gripe with progressive web apps: they cache the website!! A lot of people have requested that I make a progressive web app for https://plaintextsports.com. I've looked into it, but it fundamentally doesn't work, because it caches the home page. My website doesn't load any data via JavaScript; it just relies on the HTML page updating every 30 seconds, so when the home page is cached, the website just stops working. I don't want this service worker nonsense. In most cases offline access isn't useful; people want the live scores. (It'd be moderately useful for viewing schedules offline, but I think most people use it for live scores.) I just want the website to show up as its own app in the app switcher, and basically <i>nothing</i> else to change: I still want the swipe-to-go-back gesture to still work. I still want the address bar with the manual refresh button. But I can't do that. It's frustrating that they've provided a way to make a certain style of websites into first-class apps, but it doesn't work for the most basic websites!! Side note: this is partially a the-best-way-to-get-a-question-answered-on-the-internet-is-to-say-something-wrong post. If there's a way to make it a PWA and not have all the pages heavily cached, please let me know! I would love to be wrong on this. (Unfortunately my noprocast just triggered though, so I won't be able to edit this post or respond for the next three hours.).

#Sports #Basketball #Football 16 social mentions