Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #36428

Re: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) blows the W3C/IETF Success Prevention Depts out of the water!

Path	csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From	Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.vms, comp.lang.javascript, comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) blows the W3C/IETF Success Prevention Depts out of the water!
Date	Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:49:48 +0800
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Lines	43
Message-ID	<oc2p5d$15f$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
References	<obdgit$10r5$2@gioia.aioe.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host	jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.gioia.aioe.org
Mime-Version	1.0
Content-Type	text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding	7bit
X-Complaints-To	abuse@aioe.org
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0
X-Notice	Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2
Xref	csiph.com comp.os.vms:66587 comp.lang.javascript:32939 comp.lang.java.programmer:36428

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

Show key headers only | View raw

On 28-Mar-17 7:14 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> Broadcast Messaging and Topic Based subscription is now available to
> your WebApp just like native Apps thanks to FCM.
>
> https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/js/send-multiple
>
> I am absolutely ecstatic about this, as we all should be, and equally
> grateful to FCM for having managed to bypass the recalcitrance and sheer
> bloody-mindedness of spec-authors to provide functionality that everyone
> outside the ivory-towers was begging for.
>
> I thought WhatWG was set up to challenge the delusional elite a la mode
> de HTML5? Why the silence?
>
> Anyway rejoice and be glad as Native Apps have one less stick to beat us
> over the head with. And you Firefox fans are no longer stuck with
> Mozilla's third-rate AutoPush!
>
> Now if we can only get background geolocation with ServiceWorkers
> nothing can stop WebApps: -
> https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/745
>
> Happy Days!!!
>
> Cheers Richard Maher
>
> PS. The cognoscente are once more assembling on April 4-5 for a Japanese
> junket on ServiceWorkers to yet again wax bollocks on "offline first" :-(
>
> Please lobby the names that can be found in the hall of shame here: -
> https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1053


For those hoping that W3C/IETF will wake up to the background 
geolocation requirement, I'm afraid the answer is "Not this year" :-(
https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1053

Still, at least the sponsors are getting value for their money and 
quality F2F time in Tokyo: -
https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/848018836922093570

You just can't be that productive via email or a conference call!

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) blows the W3C/IETF Success Prevention Depts out of the water! Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-03-28 19:14 +0800
  Re: Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) blows the W3C/IETF Success Prevention Depts out of the water! Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-04-05 20:49 +0800

csiph-web