Abstract
The mission of the Service Workers Working Group is to enable Web applications to take advantage of persistent background processing, including hooks to enable bootstrapping of web applications while offline.
Web Applications traditionally assume that the network is reachable, which is not always the case. The Working Group will specify event-driven services between the network layer and the application, allowing it to handle network requests gracefully even while offline.
General Information
Working groups: https://www.w3.org/sw/
ICT rolling plan topic: Applications of information technology
SDO: W3C