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Service Worker: ServiceWorkerRegistration.update()

Category

Service Worker

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 45)

Intent stage

None

Summary

update() pings the server for an updated version of this Service Worker registration without consulting caches.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/index.html
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=450507

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorkerRegistration/update

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