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A few years back we had this same discussion orbiting around Service Workers. Here's a post from 2017 where the top comment argues that what's holding back the
by petmon 4y ago
A few years back we had this same discussion orbiting around Service Workers. Here's a post from 2017 where the top comment argues that what's holding back the web is the lack of Service Workers in Safari: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489577
Apple shipped Service Workers in WebKit in 2021. Are web apps much better now than in 2017? Frankly it seems about the same. The best web apps are still exercises in minimalism like Wordle, which don't need Service Workers or Web Push.
- jpgvm 4y agoIt's been huge for PWAs.
- cal85 4y agoI'd argue the lack of service workers was indeed holding it back, but so was the lack of push notifications. Both are vital components for webapps to be able to compete with native apps for common use cases.
- gsnedders 4y ago> Apple shipped Service Workers in WebKit in 2021. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorker https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWork... shows support in Safari 11.1, shipped in 2018?