Exploring ServiceWorkers for Discourse

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Very excited about this! I’m hoping it’d make sense to bundle “Add to Homescreen” into this effort.

Fully support Android Chrome's "Add to Homescreen"

New in Chrome 39 Beta is an improved add to homescreen experience. Since Chrome M31, you can set up your web app to have an application shortcut icon added to a device’s homescreen, and have the app launch in full-screen “app mode” using Chrome for Android’s “Add to homescreen” menu item. New in Chrome M39, you can define the metadata associated with your web application in a JSON-based manifest. The manifest provides a way to wrap metadata about a web application into a single file. Using …