On 30 January 2015 at 18:17, Andrew Overholt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Most of the frequently used permissions do not require the use of a >> packaged app, but the second most used permission is systemXHR which does. >> Apparently most developers are only using this because they created a >> packaged app purely for its offline properties, then found they needed >> systemXHR to talk to their own server. Which is silly. I hope Service >> Workers will help with this situation. >> > > Can you elaborate on this a bit? Why do developers need to use systemXHR > with their packaged app? How do you envision Service Workers helping in > this case? > As I understand it... Developers create a packaged app because it's currently the most effective way to make their app work offline. A packaged app has a synthetic origin which will always be cross-origin from the developer's own web server. They use SystemXHR to allow their packaged app to use remote resources from their web server, rather than set up CORS because that's more difficult. If they instead used Service Workers to make their app work offline, they wouldn't have a weird synthetic origin and therefore wouldn't need to use systemXHR because their app would be same-origin with their web server. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
