I've seen the future of the web. It's in the background
Hey everyone, I've been playing with the dev channel of Chrome and discovered something huge: background pages for web apps! This means your web app can now run even when the browser is closed, or even after system start-up. It's crazy powerful. You enable this by adding the "background" permission to your app manifest and then using a simple window.open()
call with a special third parameter. The background page's state can be toggled with window.close()
. Communication between the background page and your app is done using SharedWorkers. Oh, and Appmator now supports this too!