On 2013-07-29 2:46 PM, Doug Turner wrote:
Intent to implement seems premature. Why wouldn't we wait to see how
this goes and let Google do that. I really dislike the idea of rushing
into this API.
What is the reason you think we should not implement this? We're not
exactly rushing into *shipping* anything here.
A programatic API that does something like AppCache is a good idea --
only in that it is better than the declarative shit AppCache is. We
know (have data, getting more) that AppCache isn't used by the top 50k
sites (it is probably only used in WebApps). IMO, We need more data to
show that this API is more important than the n number of other things
Mozilla wants to implement.
The main reason why we're looking into this API is better offline
support for web applications. I believe that this is the best proposal
that anybody has in hand, and we need to prototype in order to make sure
that this API is something that we want to support, and that it's not
broken in similar ways to AppCache.
I would feel much better if we "continued to monitor" this api and not
rush here. Let Google do the rushing, lets implement later.
I'm still not sure what we're rushing into here.
Didn't Jonas have a proposal for the 'offline' use case?
Yes, he has proposed a declarative solution, which should be possible to
implement on top of NavigationController. That is in fact one of our
litmus tests for the viability of this API.
Cheers,
Ehsan
Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
We're planning to implement a prototype of the NavigationController
interface (see bug 898524). We will try to get feedback from web
developers on the prototype and will use that feedback to change the spec
and the implementation and iterate on the API. Our major goal for now is
coming up with a good API that is useful for the intended use cases.
Once
we're there, we will talk about plans to ship the API. For now, all of
this work will be disabled for web content.
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
--
Ehsan
<http://ehsanakhgari.org/>
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