Tag Archives: PWAs
PWA Minimus: A minimal PWA checklist
May 29, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Now that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are supported on all major browsers, and are becoming first-class installable citizens on mobile and desktop platforms alike, and with the launch of Google’s PWA .app domain, we thought it would be useful to outline a PWA checklist to meet the minimum requirements of a PWA. The result is... Read More
Safari and PWAs: Reaching critical mass
February 13, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
PWAs are here, or are arriving very soon, depending on which web browser you use. This isn’t really news if you’ve been following along with the PWA story. However, with WebKit’s implementation of Service Workers and Web App Manifest, one major lingering question over the future of PWAs has been answered: Will PWAs ever come... Read More
2017: Year in review
December 20, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
As we close in on 2018, it’s that time of year again when we reflect on what’s happened. 2017 has turned out to be another great year for the web. 2017: The year of the PWA There were lots of PWA good-news stories in 2017. We saw PWAs start to be distributed in platform app... Read More
Safari service workers and other PWA good news stories
November 1, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the state of Progressive Web Apps, there’s much to talk about. Here’s a whirlwind update of the major PWA news over the past few months. 1. Service workers support in Safari Probably the biggest news in PWA land is that during August the status of Service... Read More
2016 Year in review: Highlights from the mobile web
December 15, 2016, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
2015 was a hard act to follow. That year, we noted, was an exceedingly good year for mobile, with highlights including advances in progressive web apps, web performance, and the Physical Web. Many of these themes have continued into 2016. From this viewpoint, 2016 was more of a year of iterative progression, than of pure... Read More
