Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by nathan_long on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:31PM
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> Unfortunately for us front end engineers we can't rely on the user having any internet connection let alone a good one.
Surely some web apps need to work offline. But most web pages do not, and I don't want most sites I visit to store a bunch of data on my machine on the off chance that I'll use them offline.
"Offline first" seems really misguided to me as a rallying cry for all things on the web.
Surely some web apps need to work offline. But most web pages do not, and I don't want most sites I visit to store a bunch of data on my machine on the off chance that I'll use them offline.
"Offline first" seems really misguided to me as a rallying cry for all things on the web.