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This is the entire point of service workers, which will soon be supported in all major browsers.

• pjmlp 9y ago
  A pile of code, needed to proxy network access, that even requires scaffolding utilities to simulate what native code is able to get for free.
  • cageface 9y ago
    The web gives you a lot of things for free that are hard on native. Engineering is always about trade offs and you’re going to see more people opting to accept the tradoffs of the web over native on mobile, just as they have for years already on the desktop.
    • pjmlp 9y ago
      Not when their UI/UX mobile experience keeps sucking. Regarding the desktop, ChromeOS is a failure outside US school system, I am yet to see at least one person using them in an European coffee shop or retail, hence why Google has added support for native Android apps.