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 --
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Made enough SW/Notifications progress that by Jan '15 was defining the Add-to-Homescreen prompting criteria. I drafted on trip to London.
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Mozilla continued to engage on Service Workers and Manifests but didn't agree on UI treatment for apps; were doing FFOS proprietary apps.
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We shipped A2HS prompting on Android in March 2015; didn't have a name at this point:https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing-engagement-with-app-install-banners-in-chrome-for-android …
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So, what you've got up to this point is the story of an insurgency; a small group of people who see an alternative to The Plan (TM).
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Because make no mistake about it: every browser vendor at this point was chasing an app-store strategy, thinking that'd buy them relevance.
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...and the ones who weren't doing so overtly were playing second fiddle to their employer's app-store strategies.
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