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Apple has started to implement service workers in the latest Safari, but it still lacks behind the other browsers - I suspect they are worried it will provide a disincentive for applications to be hosted on the app store.

My biggest draw to PWAs was the ease of which I could deploy an intranet app on portable devices with spotty connectivity. This works fine with the appcache, which is what I currently use, but service workers require SSL and self-signed certificates are a no-go. This adds to the complexity of using service workers in a simple intranet hosted PWA. Also, back to Safari's poor implementation of service workers, the amount of time a PWA will reside in the browser is unspecified. I can only imagine the the headaches it will cause if the PWA drops randomly. So I'm avoiding service workers in my PWAs for now.

When appcache deprecates (it's slated to), maybe it will be time for me to go native if I am going to have to add complexity regardless.