On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> > wrote: > > Your use-cases already fail today because many Web pages use scroll event > > handlers and JS custom layouts. UIWorkers won't make the problem any > worse. > > I agree that it's not making the problem worse. However #1 is making > the problem better, so unless we can address this, this becomes an > argument for #1 over #2. > We can still do #1 as well as #2. It's a matter of priorities, and I think enabling richer performant mobile apps is much higher priority than enabling more scroll effects in saved Web pages. > Furthermore, I think facilitating expressive performant mobile Web apps is > > much more important than those use-cases, and preventing UIWorkers from > > interacting with the outside world (including, I assume, the application > > main thread) would severely limit their usefulness. > > > > Personally I think it's futile to try to save a complex app "for later > > viewing" and expect anything useful to happen unless the whole app is > > captured and able to operate offline. > > The lack of ability to save for later viewing is a big problem on mobile. > > The fact that native is so much better at retaining content to make it > available later when the user is offline is one of the big reasons > that the web is having a hard time competing with native. > > So I do think that this is an important problem to solve. > Echoing Gordon and Gavin: saving the DOM+CSS is totally unlike the way native apps work and not an adequate solution to this problem. Rob -- oIo otoeololo oyooouo otohoaoto oaonoyooonoeo owohooo oioso oaonogoroyo owoiotoho oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro owoiololo oboeo osouobojoeocoto otooo ojouodogomoeonoto.o oAogoaoiono,o oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso otooo oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro,o o‘oRoaocoao,o’o oioso oaonosowoeoroaoboloeo otooo otohoeo ocooouoroto.o oAonodo oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso,o o‘oYooouo ofooooolo!o’o owoiololo oboeo oiono odoaonogoeoro ooofo otohoeo ofoioroeo ooofo ohoeololo. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
