Offline iOS web app: loads my manifest, but doesn't work offline

Question

I\'m writing a web app to be used offline on iOS. I\'ve created a manifest, am serving it up as text/cache-manifest, and it usually works fine, when running in

Answer 1

I have found that clearing the Safari cache after enabling Airplane mode to be an effective way of testing whether the app is really functioning offline.

I have sometimes been fooled into thinking that the application cache was working when it wasn't.