On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:51:17 +0100, Charles McCathieNevile
<cha...@opera.com> wrote:
Use cases
* An app can provide notifications (using the Web Notification stuff
that is under developemnt) when it is not visible/focused, but skip them
when it is to minimise distractions and reduce cognitive load
* An application can (try to) communicate with the currently focused
application. This is essentially what a whole class of extensions does
in practice. Enabling it for general HTML would be a step towards making
it possible to share different functionality extensions. Right now, it
would rely on out-of-band agreement about how to communicate, but that
is perfectly feasible in practice. It also introduces a clear
requirement for a security discussion (see the paper that Art posted
recently...).
Also, an app that knows it's invisible can stop, for example, some
expensive canvas rendering that no-one will see, making your laptop
battery happier.
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Alexey Feldgendler
Software Developer, Desktop Team, Opera Software ASA
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