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		xfalcox on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS > In contrast, there is no way for a PWA (unless something has changed since I last looked, in which case PLEASE* tell me) to schedule a notification for the future without contacting a server. It's a bad direction to go for PWAs, given that the whole point is for them to be able to work offline. Looks like this effort died because of Android: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=891339

danShumway on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

Yeah, that was my impression as well. Every once and a while I check back to see if it's been picked up.

I really think Google made the Web Push standard worse, in multiple ways.

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