On Thursday, 11 July 2013 at 18:02, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > > As a result of a discussion a few of us had today at the Toronto work > > week about the use of appcache on the web (and if we should "fix it"), I > > did a quick scan of the sites using appcache in Alexa's top ~50,000 > > websites (only includes the landing page at a given URL). > > > > Of the search, 16 sites were returned - 2 of which have appcache > > commented out. 1 site only enabled it for Mobile IE. > > > Note that the main use case for appcache is applications, which tend to be > behind authentication walls and robots.txt blocks. For example, I would > doubt that a grep is going to catch Google Docs' use of appcache. (Not > that they want appcache to remain as is, but that's a separate issue.) Sure. We have quite a few "hosted apps" for FireFox OS using it. Obviously, most of those sites are not going to show up in the index. > appcache is, in this respect, similar to <keygen> (which is almost not > used at all on the public web, but is used on intranets and behind > paywalls and authentication walls). Agree… we were kinda interested in seeing if people were using it in unexpected ways. As I said, the data is just indicative (of what? I don't know!:)), and no conclusion should be drawn from it. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
