Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App
by adrianN on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:10PM
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Maybe my users want to do more things with their computer than just display a website. And maybe they don't want my website to prevent their processor from entering a sleep state because it does unnecessary background work. Maybe my users pay for their data, or maybe they have a poor connection.
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Re:Turn your website into a Progressive Web App
by untog on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @01:16PM
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> And maybe they don't want my website to prevent their processor from entering a sleep state because it does unnecessary background work.
Good news is that a service worker can't do that. It gets automatically shut down after a short period of time. It will be woken up again in response to push notifications, which you must request permission for, or in response to a new user event.
> Maybe my users pay for their data, or maybe they have a poor connection.
Which is why providing greater offline capability is a good thing, not a bad thing.