On 16 July 2015 at 01:44, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:
As long as platforms exist with homescreens and other inventories of
installed apps, of which the browser is one, it seems worthwhile to me to
support adding Web apps to those inventories so they're peers of native
apps
On 16 July 2015 at 14:36, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
As far as I can tell, neither of the above are things that another UA can
hook into. Am I correct in my understanding here?
I asked about that for Chrome Custom Tabs, a Googler told me there's an API
so that other
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 8:15 AM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
1. Enhance browser tiles: many sites have nice logos/icons, and they have an
application-name. I want to show the application-name and icon or logo them
in tiles in the new tab page.
This seems possible using meta
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
Some of the things raised:
* It's not clear what problems manifest solves: do we really want to
replicate native app installation behavior on the Web? We don't have a good
history of making this work in various products.
*
On 15 July 2015 at 10:42, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote:
But it'd be *really* nice to get rid of features that are there
specifically to migrate users away from the web and to native Android
and iOS apps. If google/apple wants to implement that then that's fine
with me, it's their
On 15 July 2015 at 10:42, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote:
I also think that display-mode and orientation (and maybe
theme_color) properties seem to make much less sense given the
current model of manifests. That seems like information that we'd want
to apply during normal browsing too,
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:12 AM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
some people believe that web applications should be installable
I don't subscribe to that theory. The web is comprised of pages, not
apps. (I mostly agree with Alex, but not regarding the perceived need
for app discoverability; I hear
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Martin Thomson m...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:12 AM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
some people believe that web applications should be installable
I don't subscribe to that theory. The web is comprised of pages, not
apps. (I mostly agree
On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 3:34:42 PM UTC+10, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:00 AM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
* It's not clear what problems manifest solves
This is by far the biggest problem. I think we ended up with manifests
because packages have manifests and
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:12 PM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
Do we even agree on the above?
I agree with some of it... But, I don't really see the point of trying
to merge web and native (other than turning the browser into the OS).
And I really don't see the point of trying to play by native's
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On Friday, April 18, 2014 at 7:22:56 AM UTC+10, Marcos Caceres wrote:
Summary:
JSON-based manifest, which provides developers with a centralized place to
put metadata associated with a web
I'd rather see us solve the individual problems that manifests aim to
solve using some combination of meta tags, link relations and
plain-ol' DOM/JS APIs. The manifest is no better than the former two.
It already replicates features that these provide when it comes to
icons.
In particular, the
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:00 AM, mar...@marcosc.com wrote:
* It's not clear what problems manifest solves
This is by far the biggest problem. I think we ended up with manifests
because packages have manifests and iOS/Android use packages for
applications, but none of that translates well to
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