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Yes, it's confusing. It's not 7 days of non-use, it's seven days of application use without visiting the site. Safari is one application, the homescreen app i
by gridlockd 7y ago
Yes, it's confusing.
It's not 7 days of non-use, it's seven days of application use without visiting the site.
Safari is one application, the homescreen app is a separate application. Presumably, all the alt browsers or WebView apps are separate applications as well.
Since you can't use a homescreen app without visiting the site, the 7 days of not visiting the site can't happen.
- untog 7y agoAh OK that makes sense. They should really copy and paste what you just said into their post!
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- emmelaich 7y agoBut .. if you don't use Safari for seven days, what happens?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- eyelidlessness 7y agoFrom their description, nothing. Seven days of use without visiting triggers deletion. Failing to satisfy either of those conditions (either by disuse of Safari, or by visiting the site within seven days) doesn't.
- rhizome 7y agoSo this is a requirement that all webapps phone home, moreover that they have a home to phone?
- untog 7y agoNo, this is all internal to the browser, no requirement to send a remote request.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- manicdee 7y agoIt’s a requirement that some time within the next seven days of app usage, the user interacts with the web app. This might cause trouble if the web app is simply a list of timers which the user interacts with passively (map of earth showing day/night zones), but if there is any interaction at all the timer resets.
- numpad0 7y agoI'm not getting the semantics clear but wonder whether having the icon on the homescreen counts as "visiting" or whether suspending the app first day and reopening it the next day counts app-subjectively as "continuing day one" or "reopening immediately"
- pier25 7y agowill it be "7 days of non-use" for regular websites that use localStorage? You can't really have "seven days of application use without visiting the site".
- Gaelan 7y agoFor "regular websites" (visited through Safari) it's 7 days where you use Safari, but don't visit the site. So if you go on vacation for a month and don't touch your computer, or if you switch completely to using Firefox for a month, localStorage will remain untouched.
- pier25 7y agoWhere is this explained?
- saagarjha 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681370 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681370
- pier25 7y agoHmm no mention about "regular websites" there...
- saagarjha 7y agoI fail to see why you need to see a mention of "regular websites". The comment clarifies the situation of what occurs if a user goes on vacation or switches to another browser: nothing will be deleted, as Safari is not being used.
- Touche 7y agoWhat if you visit a link within the home screen app that takes you to another domain? Presumably if you kept using it with ever returning to the original domain the clock would be ticking.