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The discussion on the proposed solution is interesting https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1680

comment by prophesi · 2026-07-05 · in Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

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Service Workers are too hard to clean-up (2023)

story by 9d · 2025-06-10 · 1 comment

…but back in 2014 I looked at how browsers behave if the resource is different to the content-length https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/362#issuecomment... Also in 2018, some fun where when downloading a file, browsers report bytes…

comment by jaffathecake · 2024-10-07 · in How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

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Service Worker Verification

story by alvaroflm · 2024-06-01 · 1 comment

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Service Workers are too hard to clean-up

story by bluehex · 2024-04-26 · 0 comments

That doesn't work because browsers have duration limits on ServiceWorkers: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/980#issuecomment... Also unfortunately Chrome doesn't keep SharedWorker alive after a navigation (Firefox and Safari…

comment by esprehn · 2024-03-19 · in WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

I was wondering as well so I looked it up real quick. Here are some relevant issues: - https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/745 - https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-sensor/issues/22

comment by teleclimber · 2022-11-01 · in Show HN: I made an offline-ready hiking trail companion app

…it easy to look at the dom & grok how things happen. [1] https://github.com/WICG/import-maps [2] https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/831 [3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824647 [4]…

comment by rektide · 2021-02-11 · in The web didn't change; you did

…Service Workers). BTW Service Workers were moved to Candidate Recommendation about half a year ago: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1460 ("Double check everyone is happy with v1 going to CR.") So yeah, I don't know what to say.…

comment by dmitriid · 2020-07-11 · in Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better

…3: https://medium.com/@amberleyjohanna/seriously-though-what-is... 4: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/tree/c49c878cdcbaf7a81e... 5: http://offlinefirst.org/

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2019-02-03 · in Tiny PWAs and why I keep building them

…hint. If someone else wonders why foreign fetch was canceled, this seems to be the relevant issue: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1188

comment by JepZ · 2018-02-12 · in Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work

…but given the above the probability of detection of a malicious Service Worker is very high. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 [2]: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1026

comment by twiss · 2018-01-15 · in The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications (2011)

…that can be done with service workers or any website in general. twiss says as much themselves: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 And yes, there is normally an implicit assumption that the hardware is not spying on you…

comment by jimktrains2 · 2017-11-02 · in Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

That's blocked on https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 . However, there's also an alternative option to make updating the Service Worker unnecessary, by making a "stub" Service Worker which downloads, validates and executes the…

comment by twiss · 2017-11-01 · in Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

…[2]: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... [3]: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 [4]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=773307 , but it's not a browser bug. I should file

comment by twiss · 2017-10-31 · in Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative

…permitted and encouraged to keep them on a tight leash on behalf of the user's experience. See e.g. https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/blob/master/implementat...

comment by rictic · 2017-10-28 · in Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets

…Workers: http://blog.airbornos.com/post/2017/08/03/Transparent-Web-Ap... The main blocker is https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 (which would fix the non-critical but less-than-ideal issue described under "Service Worker…

comment by twiss · 2017-10-23 · in Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail

…ugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=773307 , haven't filed a spec issue for this yet because https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 hasn't gotten any replies yet

comment by twiss · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser

…on making a library to make it easy to make a web app trust-on-first-use. The main blocker is https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1208 (which would fix the non-critical but less-than-ideal issue described under "Service Worker…

comment by twiss · 2017-10-23 · in Show HN: Home-made crypto in the browser

…resource consumption. The browser is allowed to stop any service worker at almost any time. See https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/blob/master/implementat...

comment by rictic · 2017-06-06 · in JSC loves ES6

…tps://stackoverflow.com/questions/38843970/service-worker-... but as per the ticket mentioned there – https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/893 – they are moving to default no-cache, opt-in caching.

comment by dracos · 2017-05-26 · in Performance notes

…defeat the purpose somewhat. How do other people handle that? EDIT: At least I'm not the only one: https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/893

comment by pjungwir · 2017-05-26 · in Performance notes

…well to me, though I'm still not sure on the security implications of pinning JS through it. [0] https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/blob/master/exp...

comment by girvo · 2015-10-19 · in MEGA is genius

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ServiceWorkers Explained

story by Mahn · 2014-12-07 · 0 comments

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#ShotsFired: Mozilla/Chrome to Release Incompatible ServiceWorker APIs

story by dccoolgai · 2014-10-27 · 0 comments

…least we have the Service Workers spec[0] coming soon, though, which should solve the problem. [0] https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/

comment by M2Ys4U · 2014-09-09 · in Emscripten and asm.js: C++'s role in the modern web

…out for an overview[2]. [0]: http://alistapart.com/article/application-cache-is-a-doucheb... [1]: https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/blob/master/exp... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uQMl7mFB6g

comment by timothya · 2014-06-30 · in The HTML5 appcache is the New Bootloader

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ServiceWorker: an alternative to the app cache

story by flippyhead · 2014-05-14 · 0 comments

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The Service Worker Specification

story by taylorbuley · 2014-04-17 · 0 comments

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ServiceWorkers give you a way to build applications that work offline

story by BKCandace · 2014-04-11 · 0 comments

…It does away with bullshit 'offline mode' divining and encourages apps to work 'offline first'. https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/blob/master/exp... The polyfill is actually a node.js headless implementation, which makes this…

comment by vdm · 2014-04-08 · in The Decline of the Mobile Web