RE: Notification of availability of update. Re: Some comments in Execution and Security Model spec



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcos Caceres [mailto:w3c@marcosc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:46 PM
> To: Min, Hongbo
> Cc: public-sysapps@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Notification of availability of update. Re: Some comments in
> Execution and Security Model spec
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Min, Hongbo wrote:
> 
> > > updated, it could send user a notification to prompt user to restart
> > > the app or not when it is running.
> > > There is some precedence for this. For example, Chrome on iOS
> > > displays an information bar when an update is available in the App
> > > Store. I don't know if it's iOS notifying the application if an
> > > update is available or not, or if Chrome is doing its own checking somehow.
> >
> > From my experience of playing Chrome on iOS, it will have a check and notify
> user that there is an available update by showing an infobar.
> 
> Right, but is this something that should just be handled by the system (i.e., the
> system can just notify the user at an appropriate time through some UI)? Or
> does the application need to be notified also through a message or event?
> What would be the use case for the application being notified of the availability
> of an update, apart from nagging the user to update the app?
> 

If the behavior of updating an app when it is running background is well defined, I am fine with the update notification should be handled system, not application itself since it may always nag user to update app.

> 
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> Marcos Caceres
> 
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Received on Friday, 19 April 2013 12:38:19 UTC