Fwd: RfC: Service Workers

I am not sure we are in position to comment on this but, nevertheless, there may be some among us who have enough knowledge… (I am not one of those.)

Ivan

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> From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
> Subject: RfC: Service Workers
> Date: 21 Sep 2015 13:27:49 CEST
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> The Editors and active contributors of Service Workers intend to publish a Candidate Recommendation soon (details below). Consequently, this is a Request for Comments by the WebApps group to seek wide review of the latest version of the spec:
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> <https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/>
> 
> The open issues for Version 1, and the spec's version history are [1] and [2], respectively.
> 
> If you have any comments, we prefer you submit them as Github issues [3]; otherwise, please send your comments to the public-webapps list [4] using a Subject: prefix of "[serviceworkers]".
> 
> -Thanks, AB
> 
> [1] <https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22Version+1%22>
> [2] <https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/commits/master>
> [3] <https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/>
> [4] <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/>
> 
> 
> On 9/18/15 2:22 AM, Jungkee Song wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We editors are happy to announce that we make a new branch for Service
>> Workers 1 today [1].
>> 
>> Thanks to all the contributions, Service Workers 1 now covers the
>> fundamental model and the associated APIs to support offline-first and
>> background processing requirements. The features in this version include:
>>  - Register/Update/Unregister of a service worker registration
>>  - Handle fetch events
>>  - Fetch and Cache resources
>>  - Manage service worker clients
>>  - Communicate between a client and a service worker
>>  - Define interfaces and algorithms for extensions (Push, Notification,
>> etc.)
>> ([2] is the remaining issues for this version in the github issue tracker.)
>> 
>> On top of the above work, the contributors are now ready to continue with
>> the discussions about new features including foreign fetch [3], fetch
>> event's request's client, header-based installation, kill-switch, and so
>> forth. These efforts will be put in Service Workers Nightly [4] which is
>> just a new name for the original ED branch.
>> 
>> We are planning to publish a CR based on Service Workers 1 soon during which
>> we would like to focus on stabilizing the features (bug fix) and resolving
>> compatibility issues among multiple implementations.
>> 
>> For editors,
>> Jungkee
>> 
>> 
>> [1] https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker_1/
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+m
>> ilestone%3A%22Version+1%22
>> [3] https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/issues/684
>> [4] https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jungkee Song
>> Samsung Electronics
> 
> 


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