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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:43PM (#39748275)
You can do mobile push notifications to a phone even if they aren't connected to a mobile carrier.

That said, I'd argue SSE is the browser equivalent of mobile push notifications.

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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by jallmann on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:36PM (#39750342)
SSE generally requires the page to be active in the foreground, which is not a viable solution for mobile.

Web Push is a distinct API for browsers to emulate native push notifications via service workers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @06:51PM (#39751007)
I thought it was more that the Document object had to stay alive. ...although, these days a lot of mobile browsers will kill that thing off if the page is not in the background, so yeah...
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