Microsoft: Keeping the Progressive in PWAs (Progressive Web App Summit 2016)
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PWAs introduce a ton of new APIs to the web platform, but it isn't an all or nothing game. You can (and should!) build for the latest and greatest browsers, but through a collection of fallbacks and progressive enhancements you can bring a lot tomorrows web to yesterdays browsers.
Patrick is a web developer, hacker, and dad from Seattle. As a passionate proponent of progressive development and empathic design, he is the Interop Program Manager for Microsoft Edge. In addition to trying to bridge the worlds of web developers and standards makers, he is the lead maintainer of Modernizr, a new dad, and is generally neat.
Music by Terra Monk: https://soundcloud.com/terramonk/pwa-amsterdam-2016
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Last updated 2024-08-06 UTC.
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