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mikojan
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Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surve...
> The example on web.dev is a chat app that would automatically set an active/away status: seems useful!
Okay, but you can already do that.
occamrazor
on Sept 23, 2021
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How? You need a native app gor that. A web app can only know whether a user is actiwe _on the webpage_
ravel-bar-foo
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The point of an active/away indicator is to indicate whether the recipient of a message is likely to see/respond to the message in real time. If I'm active in another website and have notifications disabled I might not see it.
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Okay, but you can already do that.