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Re:Push API – W3C Working Draft by zachlatta on Monday October 27, 2014 @03:58AM (#8514362)
It already happens on mobile devices through APNs, GCM, and the like. Maybe mobile web browsers will have backing cloud services that use the mobile OS's recommended push server as a frontend to the mobile device? That doesn't sound like an ideal scenario though, considering that then the cloud service would have an enormous amount of user data going through it.
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Re:Push API – W3C Working Draft by lucian1900 on Monday October 27, 2014 @06:11AM (#8514661)
APN and GCM multiplex messages from all apps on a single TCP connection. That makes a significant difference.
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Re:Push API – W3C Working Draft by domenicd on Monday October 27, 2014 @01:40PM (#8516927)
That is how the Push API works as well. In fact usually developers will be using APN or GCM when they use the Push API.
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