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    2 months ago

    Service workers are supported by every web browser and enable websites to work offline. They can even do periodic background pushes/refreshes.

    My dream is that one day PWAs replace 90% of apps in existence today.

      • Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        depends what the app is. If its proprietary trash I’m forced to interact with because capitalism, you know I want it in firefox with ublock and as locked down as possible.

        If it’s something relatively trivial I use once or twice and never think about it again? Better to not have that lingering around on my device.

        A good web app is leagues better than several bad native apps, but good, standards-based native apps are almost always better. I’m taking libreoffice over google docs any day, but for more obscure stuff a web-app means I can run it on any device with a browser, not just whatever single OS it was developed and maintained for.