Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
by dumbmatter on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:29PM
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In some ways it's limiting, but overall it's a good thing. Less complexity, less network transfer, works offline, etc. It's just more challenging to do in JS/HTML than in your choice of traditional desktop app dev tools.
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Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
by euyyn on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:06PM
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GMail and Google Docs work offline too. Surely with things like Firebase it's less complex than inter-tab communication?
Re:Chrome will aggressively throttle background tabs
by kuschku on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:36PM
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Oh, you’re volunteering to pay for it? How nice of you!
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Cost is a real concern for these things. The tradeoff is running things on client or expensive backend or spending ages building a custom, efficient backend.