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Service workers have been around for a while. As far as I know their capabilities are restricted to the domain that includes them. So the guardian website can o

• Grumbledour 6y ago
  Well, just goes to show you how out of date I am! Though after reading up on it, I still don't like it much. It makes the web behave in ways I don't expect it to and I don't really see why anyone would really need this, unless they want to fundamentally change the way the web is expected to work.
  • nicoburns 6y ago
    It's main usecase is for making web apps work offline. This allows you to "install" a web app rather than a full-blown native app. If iOS supported it properly, then you could have truly cross platform, sandboxed mobile apps. There used to be a declarative version AppCache, but in pracrice that made cache invalidation almost impossible to manage properly.
  • rzzzt 6y ago
    You can check "about:serviceworkers" on Firefox, and see how many sites install a worker when visiting their page. Spoilers: a whole lot of them
    • perennate 6y ago
      Mine shows none. Could be because of permanent private browsing. Do people still run browser on their personal computer without permanent private browsing enabled?
      • nicky0 6y ago
        Do people still run browsers? I wouldn't know because I access the web exclusively using telnet.