Hi blink-dev, We are experimenting with removing the service worker requirement for installing PWAs on Android. Websites will no longer need to have service worker and offline support to be installed.
Context: Chrome for Android offers to install a website when the site meets the install-criterias <https://web.dev/install-criteria/>. The Mobile Web Install team is intending to move the two requirements: (1) a Web App Manifest populated with a particular set of fields, and (2) an active service worker that is able to issue an HTTP 200 response when no network connectivity is available. In particular, the service worker requirement has led to a number of websites implementing otherwise empty, non-functional service workers, which slows down the Web. We are running the experiment of removing the service worker requirement on Canary/Dev on M103 and planning to roll out to Beta/Stable. -- Ella Ge -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAGbAJuHOuVCFrkOPpoz1S%2BiYGQTEUpDZgOmSQSX1gm%2B11jcCRA%40mail.gmail.com.
