• JakenVeina@midwest.social
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    19 天前

    The caching and boot time scenario is very compelling, for teams who have an actual web APP to deploy, not just a web SITE, but… why were they not just leveraging the caching capabilities the browser ALREADY has?

    Like, genuine question: what caching capabilities does a Service Worker that the browser doesn’t already do?

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      17 天前

      Offline cache becomes possible with PWA

      Edit to give concrete example: Mozilla MDN docs read later/read while offline

      I was wrong. It was not mozilla MDN. But I do remember an offline cache docs site