Re:Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
by oarsinsync on Sunday March 30, 2025 @03:39AM
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It’s totally possible to distribute a webapp that works offline and stores all your data offline too.
Platform owners introduce a bunch of restrictions that create reliability and usability concerns, but the standards already exist to enable a website operator to create a webapp that, after the initial ‘install’, runs entirely offline on the user’s device, and has no need to communicate with the website.
Platform owners introduce a bunch of restrictions that create reliability and usability concerns, but the standards already exist to enable a website operator to create a webapp that, after the initial ‘install’, runs entirely offline on the user’s device, and has no need to communicate with the website.