PWAs are not perfect (yet) but at least you won’t be kicked out of the App Store if Apple doesn’t like your app

This turned out to be an issue in the Service Worker itself.

The entry URL '/index.html' is cached but '/' was not, although this worked fine in the past if I recall correctly.

The remaining issues are still that the behaviour of the app in Safari on MacOS is different from…

Webstorm is an excellent IDE.

There’s nothing wrong with VS Code but Webstorm is on a higher level

#WebComponents caveat that may throw you if you don’t know about it: it’s very hard to slot elements in named slots while keeping the default slot empty, since any indentation will become blank slots, thus making the default slot have slotted nodes. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Demo:…

Offline for PWAs is again seriously broken on iOS.

When I put my iPhone in flight mode and open the app in Safari it works fine offline but when I install the app and try to open it while offline it fails miserably.

When I open the installed app first and then go offline it…

Remote debugging a PWA running on iOS is still a PITA.

Service Workers simply don't show up in the Develop menu and console logs from a Service Worker are not shown.

This makes debugging a matter of trial and error and it's really starting to annoy me.

If there's a will you…

View Transitions are now in Safari Tech Preview 192 and can be enabled by enabling the feature flag (Develop > Feature flags)

I modified the demo at What PWA Can Do Today but noticed that not everything works as expected yet.

You can see in the recording below that the flip…

It seems getInstalledRelatedApps is broken in Chrome 124 Pete LePage