Re: [manifest] Integration with service workers (#161)

isn't AppCache polyfillable with ServiceWorkers?

2015-02-06 16:26 GMT+01:00 Sebastian Kippe <notifications@github.com>:

> what's the basis of your sniping?
>
> Sorry, nothing personal. You just rant a lot about it in public.
>
> From the Chrome team perspective, I can say that we will rip AppCache out
> of the product as soon as our largest users are converted to SWs. I expect
> that to happen this year.
>
> You'll completely remove support for a working Web Platform spec from your
> browser, rendering currently working offline apps broken?! It's not a
> <blink> element exactly. People rely on this to cache their app assets
> today.
>
> (what my article and talk didn't cover is the huge security issues of
> appcache, to sites using appcache & appcache as an attack vector. It needs
> deprecated, quickly)
>
> Would be great if you could link us a resource covering that! Much
> appreciated.
>
> I'm told that Mozilla are just as keen, if not keener, to remove appcache
> from Firefox.
>
> ... where it currently supports offline Web apps on FF OS, Android,
> Windows, OS X and Linux. Great idea!
>
> Other than this, I think @benfrancis <https://github.com/benfrancis>
> summed up the list of unanswered questions about it quite well.
>
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