I think my question is more around dapp devs that _use_ the web (see http://pepedapp.com ) as the UI for their dapp. On mobile, launching a dapp as a native app is firewalled by apple/goog. Can PWAs be an alternative?
Sorry, wasn't meaning to be argumentative! Was only noting that the push backend can be whatever service the browser chooses, so browser choice allows for different implementations.
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Regarding notifications without push, if you have a document open, the `new Notification(...)` API still works: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification …
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Thank you! So if I understand this correctly one could poll for messages in the worker thread and notify the user without the need for a push provider? If so that is really fantastic and addresses my concerns.
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No apology necessary. I see what you mean. As a small suggestion it may be empowering to the user if one can set their push provider in the same way they can set their search provider in the omnibar. Throwing that out there.
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Yeah, we've discussed it; tricky balance around battery concerns
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I'm genuinely interested in whether PWAs could enable dApps on mobile vs app store. Maybe it doesn't matter?