- From: Min, Hongbo <hongbo.min@intel.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:39:10 +0000
- To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
- CC: "public-sysapps@w3.org" <public-sysapps@w3.org>
> > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Marcos Caceres [mailto:w3c@marcosc.com] > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:06 PM > > > To: Min, Hongbo > > > Cc: public-sysapps@w3.org (mailto:public-sysapps@w3.org) > > > Subject: Notification of availability of update. Re: Some comments > > > in Execution and Security Model spec > > > > > > Hi Hongbo, > > > > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Min, Hongbo wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 9. Does it make sense to add ‘onupdate’ event in Application > > > > > > interface to let > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Application itself be aware of update? > > > > > > > > > > Could be. What use case did you have in mind? I guess it's > > > > > similar to when a new version of AppCache is available. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In fact, the use case in my mind is, if application knows when it should be > 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. Hongbo
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