| Summary: | Consider letting extensions receive push messages through the WebPush API without receiving notifications | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Kiara Rose <kiara_rose> |
| Component: | WebKit API | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | webkit-bug-importer |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
| Version: | WebKit Local Build | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
Consider letting extensions receive push messages through the WebPush API without receiving notifications. Instead of creating a new web extensions API, we could utilize WebPush to allow extensions to receive messages if we remove the requirement to display a notification on receiving a push message. This is something developers expressed a lot of interest in the Web Extensions Community Group (WECG). In order to do this, extensions would need to be able to set { userVisibleOnly: false }. Things to consider for Safari: - How would we push messages to an extension whose url changes on new launches of Safari? - It's currently HTTPS only in WebKit, and we would need figure out a way this could work with web extension URLs Link WECG issue: https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/208