Progressive Subcompact Publications: Annotations
I still remember the first time I made an annotation from a Kindle book available in their public site (kindle.amazon.com). I saw the possibilities as limitless until I realized that there were...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Beyond Offline
The service worker script we discussed in the prior section is the core of a PSP but there’s way more we can do to make our reading experiences behave more like native applications. Some of these...
Progressive Subcompact Applications: How they work
How does this all work? # At the core of our progressive subcompact publications is a service worker. This woker is a type of shared worker and it also works as a network proxy for your requests, you...
Progressive Subcompact Publications: Introduction
For the past few months I’ve been working at Google building a set of instructor-led courses on how to build progressive web applications. This has made me think of how to push some of these concepts...
Slowdown and New Projects
I started a contract in early June that has swallowed all my time and as a result there have been fewer blogs and, I hate to admit it, with a lower quality than I would like. I also have a few...
EME, DRM and The Web Platform
The EME controversy rears its ugly head again but this time it seems like it's going to end poorly for users and rather well for content creators. EME as currently implemented would enable closed...
Designing a service worker
Since I decided to do an app shell architecture for the project we'll have to split the way we cache content with service worker. We'll use both sw-precache to cache the app shell and sw-toolbox to...
Reading for everyone
Third in a series. Other two parts are What kind of web do we want? and Who are the next billion users and how do we accommodate them How we build content that will be read wherever and whenever we...
Who are the next billion users and how do we accommodate them
Where are the next billion users for our applications come from? When answering this question we have to be careful. The answer itself is easy, the implications of the answer, not so much. I'll...
What kind of web do we want?
The web, technology wise, is in a great place. We’ve grown closer to parity with native apps, that’s the gist of progressive web applications, we can have pretty close to the same experience form web...