Re:Capacitor: Universal Web Applications
by bl4ckm0r3 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @03:31PM
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ios supports PWAs (service workers) now doesn't it?
Re:Capacitor: Universal Web Applications
by michaelgreen on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:06AM
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Yeah they added it in the most recent version of iOS (11.3) but progressive web apps have a very loose definition the most basic of which is, as you correctly stated, using a service worker. However service workers are just the ground floor of a much bigger building of features that should be able to be leveraged cross browsers.
You do get access to a lot of the core sensors on the device but the inconsistencies on iOS just really make life a lot harder. Hopefully this will change over the next year but I'm not sure how quickly it will happen. So basically yes, you should build PWAs but until apple gets completely on board you can't really leverage them to their full extent like you can with chrome on android.