On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Roger Hågensen <rh_wha...@skuldwyrm.no<mailto:rh_wha...@skuldwyrm.no>> wrote:
On 2017-03-27 05:50, Richard Maher wrote: Broadcast Messaging and Topic Based subscription is now available to your WebApp just like native Apps thanks to FCM. https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/js/send-multiple I am absolutely ecstatic about this, as we all should be, and equally grateful to FCM for having managed to bypass the recalcitrance and sheer bloody-mindedness of spec-authors to provide functionality that everyone outside the ivory-towers was begging for. I thought WhatWG was set up to challenge the delusional elite a la mode de HTML5? Why the silence? Maybe because this is a Google API and cloud service rather than a web standard added to Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera, Vivaldi etc? Unless I'm missing some important detail here! Yes it is a Google API. A browser agnostic Google API that runs on Chrome, Firefox, Samsung, soon to be Opera, and Edge. Anything that runs ServiceWorker and Push. While I would’ve preferred W3C/IETF to see the sense and requirement for Topic-based subscriptions and broadcast messaging, the Firebase API is from the same stable as other ubiquitous APIs such as Google Maps? Analytics? Google+ logon. Anyway rejoice and be glad as Native Apps have one less stick to beat us over the head with. And you Firefox fans are no longer stuck with Mozilla's third-rate AutoPush! I'm not aware of anything called autopush, is this another cloud API? Or do you mean https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Push_API ? See: - https://mozilla-push-service.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Now if we can only get background geolocation with ServiceWorkers nothing can stop WebApps: - https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/745 Considering I'm coding both native and "HTML5" based "apps" there is far more that needs to be improved. There is no way to reliably know how much LocalStorage or IndexDB space the web app has, trying to access or list files locally in a folder is not possible, something as simple as a editable soundboard can't be made if it's run locally (via file: protocol). While Xinput is supported, DirectInput is not and there is a lot of controllers out there that are not Xinput. Trying to save a file locally is a pain, you have to simulate a download. Loading a audio file manipulating it and saving it again is not the same as with a native app, instead you end up with a duplicate file in the download folder instead of the original files folder. If there is a requirement for Oracle 12G on a mobile phone and then I’m sure they will build it. In the meantime the fundamental service/retail-delivery shift that the world is currently experiencing is crying out for background geolocation Uber, Dominos, GrindR, Facebook, Deliveroo, Maps/Navigation and on and on. Please let WebApps compete with Native Apps! There is a difference between a Webapp that supports offline and a offline "HTML5" app. Using NWN.js and Electron turns it into a native app anyway, ideally one should not have to do this, at least not for "simple" apps. PS. The cognoscente are once more assembling on April 4-5 for a Japanese junket on ServiceWorkers to yet again wax bollocks on "offline first" :-( What is wrong with offline first? If you have a Ohms law calculator and your internet is down there is no reason why it should not still work if it was saved in the cache or even locally as a .html file and opened in the browser while the internet is down. If ifs and ands were pots and pans there’d be no worker for new age travelers. It's rare for the internet to be down for long periods of time, but usually it goes down wen it's the least convenient and not having apps break and still work is important in those cases. I don’t believe network reliability is an issue for the vast majority of the money-spending public. Please lobby the names that can be found in the hall of shame here: - https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1053 Hall of shame? It sounds like you have some form of personal agenda here. My agenda is to get Background Geolocation out there on Web Apps before it is too late. Service Worker extensibility seems ideal to me but I don't really care how it is done as long as it gets done. Cheers Richard
