The Future of the Mobile Web

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" summary

Mobile web progress is concrete: service worker gives a controllable offline lifecycle (network proxy, cached app shell, push notifications) and enables installability; the Payment Request and Credential Management APIs reduce checkout friction; AMP and messaging platforms compete by constraining for speed. Reality checks: 40% abandon if load >3s, 60% of mobile users worldwide are often on 2G, India adds ~100M mobile users year‑to‑year. Tools like headless Chrome/Lighthouse and WebUSB prototypes already exist and demonstrably work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 38:39RAIL
3. 44:30Service Worker life-cycle
4. 45:08System events
5. 45:41Register a Service Worker
6. 45:59Simple Installation
7. 47:20Network first
8. 47:38Incremental Cache
9. 47:56application shell
10. 48:22The Progressive Web App experience
11. 50:00The headless web
12. 52:38Headless Chrome

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