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Taking the web offline with service workers

Building offline web apps that can function without a network connection has never been easier thanks to service workers

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  • HTML5 - Posted by ruadhan - 03 Nov 2015
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    Web app manifests usher new wave of progressive apps to your homescreen

  • One can’t deny the irresistible convenience of using a homescreen launcher icon to fire up a web app. Variously referred to as a bookmark icon, shortcut, or homepage icon, why shouldn’t such an icon be able to launch a web page, as well as a native app? And of course it can: this functionality has been available in Android and iOS for years. Indeed, the notion of a desktop shortcut has been around since the first GUI interfaces were developed. So why are we still talking about them in 2015?
  • Geolocation - Posted by ronan - 28 Oct 2015
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    Bluetooth beacons beckon bold builders

  • Bluetooth beacons have always been an alluring prospect for developers. Small, cheap and with a long battery life, they brim with potential save for one fatal flaw: they generally require users to have an app installed on their device to be noticed. Without a beacon-aware app, their presence generally goes unnoticed entirely.
  • HTML5 - Posted by ruadhan - 21 Oct 2015
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    Taking the web offline with service workers

  • You’re probably already familiar with the idea of offline web apps, web apps that can continue to work in the face of intermittent network connectivity. This concept has been around for a while, and various technologies have been developed along the way to achieve offline web apps, (Google) Gears, and Appcache for example, but none of these addressed the offline challenge quite as well as service workers.
  • HTML5 - Posted by mclancy - 19 Oct 2015
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    Ad Blocker Technology

  • The increasing trend towards screening out ads from web content using browser extensions or apps has hit the mainstream since Apple added support for Ad blockers in iOS9. Up until then, while possible, it was less straightforward to block ads on Apple’s Safari browser for iPhones and iPads.
  • HTML5 - Posted by ruadhan - 17 Sep 2015
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    Web push notifications

  • Web push notifications are the best thing to hit the web since the hyperlink! No kidding, this technology is going to be huge. Until recently web developers could only dream of push enabled web apps. Things have changed however, and web push notifications, the asynchronous delivery of messages to a user's device from a website, even when the website is not open in the browser, are now a reality thanks to a number of HTML5 APIs:
  • - Posted by pawelpiejko - 11 Sep 2015
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    Mobile OS market share in Q2 2015

  • For the past few years Android and iOS have been the only contenders for the title of ‘world’s most used mobile OS.’ In this article we share the latest statistics on mobile OS market share for Q2 2015 to show which of these two OSes is the most popular, and where. We'll also look at whether there area any emerging challengers to the top two platforms.
  • Browsers - Posted by mclancy - 08 Sep 2015
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    Google Initiative to Penalize App Banners Points Future Direction of Web

  • At the top of the month, Google announced the latest in a series of measures aimed at improving the mobile experience by making further changes to its mobile search ranking algorithms. This time, Google has taken aim at app install banners that obscure a significant part of webpage content on transition from the search results. From November onwards, Google will penalize this practice and offending sites risk worsening their rankings on mobile search.
  • HTML5 - Posted by ruadhan - 28 Aug 2015
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    Why HTML5 is killing Flash: it's the devices, people!

  • It’s five years now since Steve Jobs famously declared war on Flash in an open letter entitled Thoughts on Flash. With his knack for prescience, only now is it really looking like it’s lights out for Flash. Android & Google, at the time, somewhat limply, chimed in that it “wasn’t a very nice thing” for Apple to do.
  • Content Adaptation - Posted by pawelpiejko - 20 Aug 2015
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    How top Alexa companies use Adaptive Web Design

  • For some digital experts RWD seems like an approach that automagically addresses all mobile-related pain points but the truth is a little more complicated. RWD can be really beneficial for your website but only if you manage to keep the site lightweight and fast. And thus the majority of top Alexa companies use Adaptive Web Design to provide mobile visitors with optimal viewing experience.
  • - Posted by pawelpiejko - 11 Aug 2015
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    Get the new Mobile Traffic Report Q2 2015: The Tablet Edition

  • Looking for the latest statistics on the mobile landscape? Check out the new Mobile Web Traffic report based on traffic generated by thousands of DeviceAtlas-powered sites in Q2 2015. Unlike many other reports, this publication focuses on what people are actually doing on their mobile devices, rather than on shipment figures. This will help you understand the complexity of the mobile world today.
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