Service workers

[KyGost]

I saw service workers/PWAs on the development roadmap:

Spec lists this as being HTTPS only.

Shall Agregore break this?

[RangerMauve]

I'd love to break it and make service workers work on hyper:// and other such protocols, but I think it'd be up to Electron to implement the functionality and I'm not sure when I'd have time to get around to it.

Have you tested to confirm that it breaks on hyper:// URLs?

[KyGost]

Yup. At least it does with Beaker.

[RangerMauve]

Yeah, I think it'd be good to open an issue on Electron and follow up there.

[ikreymer]

Unfortunately, service worker support for custom protocols has been broken for a while in Electron (maybe never worked?):
electron/electron#9663
electron/electron#20248

[KyGost]

I've proposed that we put up a bounty for the Electron issue.
Awaiting response from the Beaker team.

I don't have too much to give but I'll put up $50AUD (personal money) for it.
($35USD / 0.08ETH)
I may up it later if I have more to give and it's still unsolved.

[RangerMauve]

I think I'd be down to throw another 100 USD in there. 😁

[RangerMauve]

The service worker stuff doesn't seem too hard to do.

There's a service_worker_schemes variable that we could make use of: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/1c99a9b425dd026b4be939486b48bd48022fee82/shell/app/electron_content_client.cc#L209

[RangerMauve]

Looks like this might be getting fixed in Electron 19? electron/electron#34290

[ikreymer]

This finally works in latest electron and in Agregore builds on 19.x!