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They should provide a permission dialog for this. It's one thing to protect people from this by default, another altogether to make it impossible.
by microcolonel 7y ago
They should provide a permission dialog for this. It's one thing to protect people from this by default, another altogether to make it impossible.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoApple OS's are already overloaded with permission dialogues. Add enough of them and you'll start to really frustrate users, and/or cause them to blanket accept everything. Desktop UI's are built around showing the user which programs are awake and active, and which are not. Mobile UI's are not. Unless/until that changes, users rely on the OS to make these decisions for them. It would be nice if we could rely on developers instead, but they will naturally be focused on their own app or page, not the system overall.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoThe more likely solution would be for them to enable this sort of thing in 'PWAs'. Apparently [0] it's not possible today though. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/53572400/ https://stackoverflow.com/a/53572400/
- microcolonel 7y agoWebpages can play media in the background on Android, but it involves locking the screen, then pressing the play button on the lock screen to confirm that you really wanted that.
- inimino 7y agoThat would be the consistent way to solve the issue if Apple wanted web apps to be as powerful as native iOS apps. But they don't, and that ship sailed long, long ago.