#AskChrome We learned this week from Firefox that 99% of users don't accept notification requests, yet I'm still hearing "the Web has to compete with Native". How will you ensure the 103 features on the Fugu roadmap don't end up in the same position as Push Notifications?
One question we haven't resolved is: if the system app model allows work to happen in the background in this way w/o UI, should the web? We can throttle it, and we can restrict to only happen from networks/IPs users has talked to specific servers from before...haven't built it.
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There's a related one there with geolocation and geo fencing - could you have a permission so the sw can get notified by the location api (with the same kind of granularity that latest android has for foreground/background)
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Great question! We've ended up with a relatively small number of geofencing requests that aren't implicitly spammy -- there was one for unlocking rental cars that was pretty good, but not many others -- and the concern there is silent tracking...
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The close pun of that use-case is Periodic Background Sync, which we *have* built and which you can test out via Origin Trial: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/08/periodic-background-sync … https://developers.chrome.com/origintrials/#/view_trial/4048736065006075905 … Looking for feedback!
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