Chrome Apps v1 and v2 happened between 2010 and 2013. Meanwhile, AppCache had been deployed broadly and was not received well.
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So developer choices were: - standard thing that wasn't "first class" and didn't work well - proprietary thing w/ limited reach
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The major difference between them wasn't the proprietary/open split, tho, it was "on the web" vs. "app store model".
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This seems counter-intuitive, but the difference is a chasm; not small. Defines all other choices in the solution space.
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So lets say you're me circa 2012: you want a way to address the first-class-apps problem but aren't in a position to do so organisationally
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...what to do? Well, in my case was lucky: the effort that didn't involve new UI (the hard part) was to fix the offline story; needed doing.
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Jake had been making the case that AppCache was broken and others agreed. Andrew Betts hosted a meeting to discuss:https://labs.ft.com/2012/08/fixing-app-cache/?mhq5j=e1 …
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We worked to build a solution that would "stick" with folks at Mozilla and elsewhere. Promises ("Futures") became part of the effort.
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Fast forward to late 2013: Service Workers moving forward in Chrome and future of Chrome Apps hazy. I write a "micro-manifest manifesto" doc
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...basically makes the case for tying together Web Manifests and Service Workers to create an app-like evolution for web content.
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The only radical idea in it is that you don't need to create a parallel, non-web packaging & distribution system.
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Shopped this around and, critically, the Tech Lead of the Chrome Apps team read it and agreed on the direction.
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Other vendors didn't engage as strongly --
@brucel and@andreasbovens (then at Opera) and@jungkees (Samsung) being notable exceptions.1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes - 18 more replies
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