Re: [whatwg] Persistent state for homescreen web apps (without reloading each time)

> On Jun 9, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But what do end users or developers expect in terms of browser behavior in
> this situation?
> 
> The history api (or saving state to indexedDB) aren't going to solve the
> problem of reinitialization everytime the user switches back to a web app.
> Users expect them to behave like a native app.

That seems like a very platform/product specific issue to me.  I don't think we want W3C to be mandating how Web browsers should interact with the rest of the system.

> Chrome handles this as users and developers expect, web apps get paged out
> and require a reload depending on memory etc. Safari does it every single
> time

By Chrome, do you mean Android?  Again, this is really about the platform-dependent behavior we shouldn't be spec'ing in W3C.

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- R. Niwa

Received on Friday, 9 October 2015 19:03:17 UTC