On Monday, June 4, 2012 2:56:36 PM UTC-7, Mike Hanson wrote: > Not suggesting a change to the API - just hilighting a cool application. > > News.me and Instapaper now have apps that use geofencing to trigger a > background notification, which in turn is used to trigger a background > download, of new content. The geofence is set around "whereever the user is > now". The user scenario is, "whenever I leave the place I am now, go grab > some fresh content for me because I probably want to read it soon." [1] > > It's a clever use of the API and one that matches user behavior very well. I > don't think we've hammered out how permissions are granted to background > workers, but if they are inherited from the foreground application, this > could just work.
Totally off topic yes. But since you mentioned it... Geolocation is pretty expensive in terms of power to be running for an application like that. You'd want to do some thing differently in our implementation to support such an app. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
