Research: crosstab should work on mobile devices for iframes

[tejacques]

Currently they don't because crosstab isn't supported, however there's no technical reason this can't work. This should be investigated.

[nibzo1]

Any movement on this?

[tejacques]

Work is being done in the 0.3.0 branch: https://github.com/tejacques/crosstab/tree/0.3.0

[brandonros]

iframes don't get paused?

[tejacques]

Active tabs don't get paused. Iframes on the same actual tab will work, which is the main (or possibly only) real benefit of crosstab on mobile.

[brandonros]

Ah. I'm using it to prevent 10 tabs opening 10 WebSocket connections when the work can be done with one then broadcasted per-tab. Is this a poor use case?

[tejacques]

On Mobile? The use case you described is exactly why this library was created, but on Mobile due to backgrounding those connections will be dropped anyway. It's also far less common to open multiple tabs for the same mobile site.