Document Name: W3C TR http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1
Document URI: http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1
Online Version: http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers-1
Organization: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Series: Technical Report (TR)
Abstract: This specification describes a method that enables applications to take advantage of persistent background processing, including hooks to enable bootstrapping of web applications while offline. The core of this system is an event-driven Web Worker, which responds to events dispatched from documents and other sources. A system for managing installation, versions, and upgrades is provided. The service worker is a generic entry point for event-driven background processing in the Web Platform that is extensible by other specifications.


Specified Web Concepts:

HTTP Header Fields

Service-Worker , Service-Worker-Allowed

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