Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even …
…Ever wanted to easily convert an image to a grayscale image on your phone? I do sometimes, and that’s why I build a demo using the Web Share Target API to achieve exactly that.
For this I
I’m in a long distance relationship. That means I’m on a plane to England every few weeks, and every time I’m on that plane, I think about how nice it would be to read some Reddit posts. What I could …
I wrote that using inline <svg icons make for the best icon system. I still think that’s true. It’s the easiest possible way to drop an icon onto a page. No network request, perfectly styleable.
But inlining code has …
I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has …
Jeremy Keith has written a new book all about service workers and offline functionality that releases at the end of the month. The first chapter is posted on A List Apart. Now that the latest versions of iOS and …
It made the rounds a while back that Chris Bolin built a page of his personal website that could only be viewed while you are offline. Now he has a whole magazine around this same concept called
This two-part series is a gentle, high-level introduction to offline web development. In Part 1 we got a basic service worker running, which caches our application resources. Now let’s extend it to support offline.…
This two-part series is a gentle introduction to offline web development. Getting a web application to do something while offline is surprisingly tricky, requiring a lot of things to be in place and functioning correctly. We’re going to cover all …
In the first part of this series we set up the front end with a Service Worker, a `manifest.json` file, and initialized Firebase. Now we need to create our database and watcher functions.…
I hadn’t considered the fact that if you’re fingerprinting your assets (e.g. style.987987090897.css) to take advantage of browser cache, you’ll need to update your Service Worker every time you do that. But I guess you’ve got a build step anyway, …
