- From: Brian Blakely <anewpage.media@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:08:31 -0400
*Background Downloading* *Problem* * * Data transfer ends when the user closes the browser, making huge 700MB applications impossible. How many are willing to keep a loading tab open for half an hour or more? The current paradigm of page loading does not work for very large applications that need all of their assets before they can run functionally offline. Games and multimedia applications are almost always this way. *Author Tool* * * A switch (meta element and API?) indicating to the UA that the application will take a long time to download, and the UA can respond appropriately. *Possible UA Responses* 1. Alert the user to switch to WiFi (a la the iOS App Store) 2. Send the entire application into an entry in the UA's download manager, in the same fashion as an EXE or DMG. However, rather than going into a Downloads folder when complete, the entry would become a link back to the app URL. 3. Create an icon on the home screen/taskbar/dock/desktop with an integrated progress display bar. This operates under the presumption that 700MB apps wish to be treated as apps, and not browser sites. -Brian
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