Sunday, August 31, 2014; 4:28:28 PM Eastern
A note to browser-makers
- I've been working almost exclusively on apps that run in web pages for the last couple of years. Because of this I'm pretty sure I see a way that browsers could be smarter about loading these apps.
- Consider an app that's launched by a bookmarklet.
- The user is likely to accumulate more than one tab running this app if they use it a lot.
- Each of these tabs has a copy of the app's data in memory. It's possible to keep them in synch using localStorage. It's pretty cool the way that works. It's not hard.
- But it would be even better if there's a way to signal to the browser to re-use tabs for this app. So if there's already a tab that contains this page, just bring it to the front and reload it.
- It would be nicer for the user, and perhaps a little more reliable.