I wrote a book about service workers. It’s called Going Offline. It was first published by A Book Apart in 2018. Now it’s available to read for free online.
If you want you can read the book as a PDF, an ePub, or .mobi, but I recommend reading it in your browser.
Needless to say the web book works offline. Once you go to goingoffline.adactio.com you can add it to the homescreen of your mobile device or add it to the dock on your Mac. After that, you won’t need a network connection.
The book is free to read. Properly free. Not the kind of “free” where you have to supply an email address first. Why would I make you go to the trouble of generating a burner email account?
The site has no analytics. No tracking. No third-party scripts of any kind whatsover. By complete coincidence, the site is fast. Funny that.
For the styling of this web book, I tweaked the stylesheet I used for HTML5 For Web Designers. I updated it a little bit to use logical properties, some fluid typography and view transitions.
In the process of converting the book to HTML, I got reaquainted with what I had written almost seven years ago. It was kind of fun to approach it afresh. I think it stands up pretty darn well.
Ethan wrote about his feelings when he put two of his books online, illustrated by that amazing photo that always gives me the feels:
I’ll miss those days, but I’m just glad these books are still here. They’re just different than they used to be. I suppose I am too.
Anyway, if you’re interested in making your website work offline, have a read of Going Offline. Enjoy!
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