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I don’t think HTML5 had anything to do with the fall of offline apps.

We have much better features for building offline apps than we did before html5 anyway (local and session storage and web workers)

Offline apps aren’t as common because they don’t make money and if someone is using a web browser 9 out of 10 times, they have an internet connection.



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