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How do you deal with offline support? If I'm not connected and I want to read an article, where do I go? Can't open the website. Did you run metrics to find ou

by st3fan 11y ago

How do you deal with offline support? If I'm not connected and I want to read an article, where do I go? Can't open the website. Did you run metrics to find out how many people are going to miss offline?

owencm 11y ago
Actually, sites in Chrome can work fully offline today using Service Worker (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introduction/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introd...). And they can get users to add the site to their homescreen, so they have the full icon+offline experience (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...).
- mintplant 11y ago
  Service Workers are also in Firefox Nightly right now, but are hidden behind an about:config flag until the feature is fully baked. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API#Browser_compatibility https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor... http://caniuse.com/serviceworkers http://caniuse.com/serviceworkers There's also the Application Cache, which has been fully supported in the stable versions for a while now. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_application_cache https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_... http://caniuse.com/offline-apps http://caniuse.com/offline-apps And of course, FF for Android has an "Add to Homescreen" button too.
  - hackcasual 11y ago
    Application cache is a fucking nightmare. Service Worker's can't come soon enough.
stephengillie 11y ago
Most apps are delivering content, so they also fail when offline. Yes, there are a number of apps that cache some data locally, but I believe they're in the minority. Even casual games have to check in with a database and retrieve a couple datapoints about your progress, your in-app purchases, and what powerups are available to you.
yaur 11y ago
On iPhone, this is what "reading list" is for.
saint_fiasco 11y ago
All desktop browsers have a "save page" feature. Surely the mobile browsers can do that too?
- DanBC 11y ago
  Chrome on iOS doesn't seem to be able to.

by st3fan 11y ago

owencm 11y ago

Actually, sites in Chrome can work fully offline today using Service Worker (http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introduction/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introd...). And they can get users to add the site to their homescreen, so they have the full icon+offline experience (https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...).

mintplant 11y ago
Service Workers are also in Firefox Nightly right now, but are hidden behind an about:config flag until the feature is fully baked. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API#Browser_compatibility https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor... http://caniuse.com/serviceworkers http://caniuse.com/serviceworkers There's also the Application Cache, which has been fully supported in the stable versions for a while now. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_application_cache https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Using_the_... http://caniuse.com/offline-apps http://caniuse.com/offline-apps And of course, FF for Android has an "Add to Homescreen" button too.
- hackcasual 11y ago
  Application cache is a fucking nightmare. Service Worker's can't come soon enough.

stephengillie 11y ago

Most apps are delivering content, so they also fail when offline. Yes, there are a number of apps that cache some data locally, but I believe they're in the minority. Even casual games have to check in with a database and retrieve a couple datapoints about your progress, your in-app purchases, and what powerups are available to you.

yaur 11y ago

On iPhone, this is what "reading list" is for.

saint_fiasco 11y ago

All desktop browsers have a "save page" feature. Surely the mobile browsers can do that too?

DanBC 11y ago
Chrome on iOS doesn't seem to be able to.