Articles by Andrew Overholt
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Open Web Apps feedback: Consolidating our channels
In August 2014 we announced the opening of a new feedback channel for web apps on UserVoice. It has led to some good discussions and here are a few highlights: This post showed the importance of the nascent FileSystem API. A suggestion about background services reinforced the need for something like the proposed BackgroundSync API. […]
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ServiceWorkers and Firefox
Since early 2013, Mozillians have been involved with the design of the Service Worker. Thanks to work by Google, Samsung, Mozilla, and others, this exciting new feature of the web platform has evolved to the point that it is being implemented in various web browser engines. What are Service Workers? At their simplest, Service Workers […]