Progressive Web Apps in Firefox
Ben Kelly
Joined the service worker effort April 2014
"This isn't too hard. We'll be done September 2014."
September 2014
March 2015
"We don't know when it will be done!"
Finally enabled in the tree December 2015
Shipped to users in Firefox 44 in January 2016
Worth the wait for:
- security
- an improved specification
- web-platform-tests
- mozilla developer network (MDN)
- service worker cookbook
Telemetry includes:
- All Beta, Developer Edition, and Nightly Users
- Release users who opt-in to additional data sharing
Push
- Also shipped in Firefox 44 ...
- ... but only for desktop
- Firefox for Android planned for 48 or 49
Telemetry includes:
- All Beta, Developer Edition, and Nightly Users
- Release users who opt-in to additional data sharing
More push:
Devtools
- about:serviceworkers
- worker debugging ...
- ... for fetch and push events
- no install debugging yet
network panel
cache storage inspector
Manifest
- platform support largely implemented
- product integration still needed
- some initial UI experiments have been run
Experimental
Does not use manifest yet
No release date for add-to-homescreen yet
BackgroundSync
- well into development with functional patches
- might release in Firefox 51 or 52
And many more ...
- full Cache API including features like ignoreSearch
- Request.referrer and referrer policy support in Firefox 47
- Request.cache support in Firefox 48
- Request.integrity SRI support expected in Firefox 50 or 51
- Streams API which is in development and planned to ship in stages across Firefox 50 to 52
- Storage API which has just begun development
Mozilla cares about the Web
We want to see the Web succeed on mobile
We will continue to invest in APIs and features toward that goal
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