- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 15:40:06 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 07/05/2013 22:35 , Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > There have been many proposals over the years that would allow for some- > thing like this, http://www.w3.org/TR/DataCache/ for instance, allows to > "intercept" certain requests to aid in supporting offline applications, > and `registerProtocolHandler` combined with `web+`-schemes go into a si- > milar direction. Those seem more worthwhile to explore to me than your > one-trick-strawman. I am well aware of this, well acquainted with these proposals, and I certainly hope that NavigationController (which is pretty much the Return of DataCache) will come to fruition. That said I do believe that there is value in addressing common use cases with a common solution, so long as it is cheap enough and well layered. We don't know that yet, but I think it's worth investigating. > Well, `rel='bundle'` would have to be supported by "everyone", because > past critical mass there would be too many "nobody noticed the fallback > is not working until now" cases, so that seems rather uninteresting in > the longer term. It's valuable in order to get to the critical mass. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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