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Background Fetch #30
Description
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification
- Specification Title: Background Fetch
- Specification or proposal URL: https://wicg.github.io/background-fetch/
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An API to handle large uploads/downloads in the background with user visibility.
Reacted by Kuba Niewiarowski
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annevk commentedon May 18, 2018
Per w3ctag/design-reviews#279 Google plans on shipping this soonish. Has anyone looked at this in detail?
cc @wanderview
asutherland commentedon Oct 25, 2018
From the ServiceWorkers TPAC F2F, Chrome is about 4 weeks out from an intent-to-ship on this. From the Gecko DOM workers & storage team, this seems like a reasonable API to us but the earliest we could get to it is 2019Q1 and Q2 is likely more realistic unless the network team wants to pick it up.
annevk commentedon Oct 29, 2018
Given https://wicg.github.io/background-fetch/#privacy-and-bandwidth-use it'd be useful to get some security UX feedback on this as well, e.g., from @johannhof.
annevk commentedon Apr 15, 2020
Sorry for neglecting to update this issue. In contrast with "background sync" this is effectively "background downloads" under a different name as I understand it.
Based on private conversations (i.e., not my idea) a model that might work here is that we treat these entirely as downloads (requiring user gesture, probably restrict to first parties, etc.) and only notify the service worker of completion of these downloads if it happens to be still open or when the user next visits. I.e., do not give it the opportunity to run script in the background.
tomayac commentedon Apr 15, 2020
Despite the maybe misleading name, this is for downloads and uploads. It’s made clear in the spec’s abstract.
codehag commentedon Jun 27, 2022
@asutherland would you be able to take another look at this? It still hasn't been moved to a standard, but if this is worth implementing, we'd like to communicate with google about moving this to a proper spec body.
marcoscaceres commentedon Mar 15, 2023
Filed a webkit position also WebKit/standards-positions#149
[-]RFP: Background Fetch [/-][+]Background Fetch [/+]asutherland commentedon Mar 12, 2024
I was pinged via other channels; from the perspective of our DOM: Workers & Storage team: