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Re: Web Apps - icons for them, and storing them locally

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On 07-Nov-16 10:52 PM, bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote:
> ...so, is there any way to write, say, a game, and have Firefox give
> you an icon for it, like it has in that screen where it "recommends"
> you stuff? .....and also, if someone downloads a game, obviously
> everytime someone wants to play it, they don't wanna go to the site
> and get it every time, so... is there some way to store the
> Javascript locally? I'm curious to know what kind of initiatives
> Mozilla/anyone else has taken in this regard....?
>
> I'd also like the level data - you know, FILES, to be stored
> locally....
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>

Mozilla had a fantastic WebApp strategy that id now dead because their 
App Store is dead :-( mozApps.install() etc

At the moment they have nothing except add-to-homescreen but are busy 
trying to support the WebApp manifest as is Google.

For caching see ServiceWorkers and the fetch API and you can be your own 
proxy server

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Web Apps - icons for them, and storing them locally bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-11-07 06:52 -0800
  Re: Web Apps - icons for them, and storing them locally Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2016-11-08 08:04 +0800

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