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by danlugo92 2338 days ago
Shouldn't this be handled by website developers via PWA-related tools? Think about it, if you're website is meant to work offline (and safari cannot know this), you can implement the necessary code for it to work offline (e.g. web.whatsapp.com)
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Expecting the page to stay open until the tab is closed isn't normally considered to be "working offline". The main point of a PWA is being able to navigate offline, not just continue to exist.
For me it's often something like a manpage I have had to find via Google. The web developer isn't thinking about stuff like that because it's a pure Web 1.0 static page that normally doesn't need anything like that.