Over the last few months, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to make it easier for developers to build web applications that work offline, its a tough problem to solve. The web has the features/technology to do it, but I think there are two things preventing us from getting there easily. The first is a perception issue for users, many people think that the web only works when they’re online, no internet, no web. That leads to a bit of a catch-22, users aren’t asking for it, so developers aren’t prioritizing it. The second problem is that it requires a change in the way we build web applications. Instead of building server side web applications, we need to build more client side web applications that use web-based APIs to get what they need.
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