Post #3019150

2026-02-20 22:00 UTC

@kp@mastodon.design Come live in Montana, walk outside past your wifi… and see how that works out for you. Anything not in a flat part of town or the highway is a big ol’ “SOS” for cell coverage. (Wyoming was the same way when I lived there)

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@danyow@norden.social 2026-02-21 13:44

@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org Not letting you do anything meaningful/at all while you’re offline is a big reason to ask this question, and sadly there is no shortage of such apps. And that’s not even including the cases where you have slow internet, which browsers tend to handle just fine, whereas over-zealous native devs typically err on the low side by an order of magnitude when setting network timeout policies for their app. @kp@mastodon.design

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@kp@mastodon.design 2026-02-22 07:03

@philsplace@mastodon.sdf.org Web apps work offline but WebKit has always had bad support for those capabilities. When Apple finally implements them there are bad bugs that take a long time to fix: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers When it comes to WebKit Apple doesn’t seem to care about privacy and security.

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