Does HTML 5 application cache have any benefit for online apps? <p>Does the HTML 5 application (offline) cache have any benefit for online/connected apps? </p> <p>My page needs to be online to function and is loaded exclusively in a UIWebView as part of an iOS app. This page is loading some large dependencies and I was wondering if I could use the HTML 5 app cache to store these dependencies to avoid relying on the regular browser cache.</p> <p>So I guess my question is:</p> <p>When an HTML 5 page is online, does it use the offline cache if a dependency already exists in the HTML5 offline cache? </p>