On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:58 PM L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote: > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > Service Workers Working Group > https://www.w3.org/2019/11/proposed-sw-wg-charter-2019.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2019Nov/0004.html
A couple of us looked at Background Sync and thus far have not been able to come up with a way to get informed consent from users for executing scripts in the background in a way that is non-intrusive and doesn't lead to abuse. Given that, I think Mozilla should object to it being in the charter. Background Fetch has a similar issue, but (thanks to Youenn Fablet for the insight) there might be a way to salvage that, by running the "fetches completed" script on next visit. This might require some API changes though so hopefully the charter can indicate that somehow. (Bikeshed: Background Downloads.) (The description for Service Workers, "This specification defines an API to enable applications to take advantage of persistent background processing.", also seems wrong or perhaps multiple uses of "background" are used in the same text, but development of SW remains important of course.) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
