Re: Regarding app notification and wake up

On 03/12/2012 06:02 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:10:19 +0100, Stefan Hakansson LK
> <stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>  wrote:
>
>> The webrtc WG has identified that the ability to notify, and possibly
>> wake up, a web application of incoming events is important. This to
>> enable support of use cases such as incoming calls. And in certain
>> scenarios the resource use (e.g. power) is very important.
>>
>> However, this kind of functionality is not in scope of the webrtc WG,
>> but seems to belong to the Web Applications WG. So this is a message
>> that the webrtc WG is interested in seeing technology that supports this
>> being developed. We have also noted discussions in Web Apps around use
>> cases for connection-less push:
>> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012JanMar/0008.html>
>> - especially the third one is very relevant for us.
>>
>> Stefan and Harald (chairs) for the webrtc WG.
>
> In the current charter proposal (which is under review at the moment) we
> have
>
> [[[
> Server-Sent Events
> An API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications
>   from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it
> can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push
> SMS.
> ]]] - http://www.w3.org/2012/03/webapps-proposed-charter.html
>
> I'm not sure if that is enough, sounds like you would like something more.

I think Bryan summarized quite well the other day what there is interest 
in beyond Server-Sent Events.

> In which case the best thing is to get people who are interested in
> developing it to say so, through their review and in this working group.

Makes sense.

Thanks,
Stefan

>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>

Received on Monday, 12 March 2012 17:12:49 UTC