Escaping tabs with progressive (web) apps

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A live airhorner demo shows a website that sidesteps app-store friction: instead of an install flow that loses ~20% of users per step, loading airhorner.com registers a service worker asynchronously, caches four assets (index, CSS, JS, MP3) via the cache API, and enables offline use, homescreen install via the manifest, and push notifications (via GCM waking the worker). The progressive install completes in background and the web app behaves like a standalone native app.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:52How to get it
3. 3:30The solution
4. 6:07The manifest spec
5. 6:52Using existing web technologies
6. 8:45Summary

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