On: Reducing power consumption for background tabs

[chongli]

Browsers have notification APIs now, from what I've seen. No need to run a full background tab just to handle the occasional notification.

[apetresc → chongli]

Those notification APIs still get triggered by Javascript running in those tabs. As far as I know, there's no equivalent to the mobile notification APIs where there's a single dedicated socket listening to a central server.

[kalleboo → apetresc]

Safari's notifications can use the Apple push notifications server the same way iOS apps do.

[apetresc → kalleboo]

Ah, that's pretty cool. Still, I don't think any of the other browsers have it that way, and Safari's desktop market share is ~2%.