Articles by Myk Melez
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Offline Web Apps on GitHub Pages
Service Workers are a response to the problems of Application Cache, and they’re a powerful and elegant way to offline your web app. But they’re also more complex to implement and maintain. Meanwhile, GitHub Pages is a great, simple static host for offline-first apps. But deploying apps to GitHub Pages requires manual configuration, especially if […]
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r2d2b2g: an experimental prototype Firefox OS test environment
Developers building apps for Firefox OS should be able to test them without having to deploy them to actual devices. I looked into the state of the art recently and found that the existing desktop test environments, like B2G Desktop, the B2G Emulators, and Firefox’s Responsive Design View, are either difficult to configure or significantly […]
