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It’s fascinating to see so many implementations targeting the same thing, along with the crazy variation in runtime size. I’d love to see memory usage comparisons too but I suppose…

Thanks! I'm hoping to continue down this path and write up some thoughts on how you might actually achieve seamless in-app webviews at some point but, y'know... time. In the meanti…

"The Toupée Theory of In-App Webviews" is perfect. I might change it in the post.

This is interesting! If anyone from WebKit is in the comments, can you provide link(s) to the bugs discussing the bytecode caching API? I'd love to take a look but my Bugzilla sear…

I was part of a team that used web notifications as an experiment in sending live election results to people's devices: https://medium.com/the-guardian-mobile-innovation-lab/genera…

The project I'm working on doesn't use any UI (that's still native), so I'd disregarded Flutter - but perhaps that's not fair. Looking at it, it seems to have straightforward ways …

This is a really interesting development. I've been poking around with making a cross-platform library lately, and had settled on Go because it does such a great job of building fo…

I'm experimenting with making a cross-platform library (specifically for iOS and Android) and I'm curious to hear what languages other people who have done it ended up using. The m…

I have a tiny insight into this, as I've been working on a Service Worker implementation for iOS webviews (i.e. in apps, not Safari): https://github.com/gdnmobilelab/SWWebView I'd …

The main reason is that the phone will download the image each time you post a notification, and with 650 alerts throughout the night (for 650 constituencies) the user would end up…

Interesting, I'll have to take a look. Thanks!

Huh! That's a really fascinating library. My gut instinct is still that it would be a heavy lift, though. Without the Canvas API in the middle you'd need to reimplement pixel by pi…

You can't use an SVG as an image in a notification. A real shame as it would have solved all the device pixel ratio problems, but the SVG spec is absolutely huge (and includes stuf…