App Runtime

Apps for Airborn are Open Web Apps. Here is a Quick Start article.

Airborn does not implement all Web APIs, though. On top of the ones desktop browsers implement, it provides:

• The Device Storage API, except:
  • No navigator.getDeviceStorages() yet
  • No add(), getEditable() or enumerateEditable() yet
  • It doesn't trigger 'change' events for deleted files yet.
• localStorage
  • But no sessionStorage or document.cookie yet
  • In Chrome this works by replacing 'localStorage' identifiers with 'airborn_localStorage' in .js files, to work around https://crbug.com/107178 / https://crbug.com/172501.
• navigator.mozApps.installPackage()
  • Not the other mozApps functions yet
• Simple Push API
  • At the moment, you won't receive messages after your app is closed
  • When the connection was lost for a while, you'll receive a push-register event instead of the undelivered messages

If any of the "but"s described here block you, please file a bug and we'll prioritize a fix.