I've had some questions about this, so I'll try to elaborate the problems that are being solved here (and they should probably be incorporated into the explainer):
- For security reasons, we require the app name to be the first thing in the title of the app window. If the page title doesn't have this at the front, we prepend "<appname> - " to the title. This has resulted in things like "Gmail - <email> - Google.com Mail" as an app title, which is weird. - The UX for the title of an 'app' window is different from a tab title - there can be slightly different goals here for what the website wants, so it's not uncommon for folks to want these to be different things. - If the website tries to dynamically change these titles based on the display-mode media query, this involves needing to store things in places like local storage to cache the title to swap, etc. This is cumbersome and requires local storage now, which is good to avoid. Because of all of these, it seemed to make sense to allow the app title setting to just be a different thing. I wonder if maybe this name is misleading - maybe we should make this called *app-title-suffix* or *app-title-custom*... maybe others have better ideas here. This feature makes sense to me & seems pretty reasonable. On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:34 AM Yoav Weiss <yoavwe...@chromium.org> wrote: > +Daniel Murphy <dmu...@chromium.org> +Mason Freed <mas...@chromium.org> > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 1:54 AM 'Haben Foto' via blink-dev < > blink-dev@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Contact emails >> >> luigo...@microsoft.com, habenf...@microsoft.com >> >> >> Explainer >> >> >> https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/DocumentSubtitle/explainer.md#html-document-subtitle-fix-installed-web-app-title-bar-text >> >> >> Specification >> >> https://github.com/whatwg/html/compare/main...diekus:html:main >> >> >> Summary >> >> Installed web apps can change the text on the title bar based on the >> page's content. The current behavior is that the installed web application >> will put the app's name from the manifest and append the page’s inner text >> from the `<title>` HTML tag in the head of the page. This often can create >> awkward titles for some web apps. This feature allows to specify >> complementary information about the current window of an installed running >> PWA. It adds a subtitle to the page to provide contextual information that >> is displayed in the window's title bar. This replaces the text contained in >> the HTML's title tag. >> >> >> >> Blink component >> >> UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls >> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:UI%3EBrowser%3EWebAppInstalls> >> >> Motivation >> >> Installed web apps cannot provide dynamic/controllable contextual >> information in their title bar. Contextual information can be the name of >> an open document, the section of an app or any other information that can >> be relevant to the running installed Web app. Having this information in >> the title bar can be useful to identify the open window when selecting >> among open apps in surfaces like the Alt+Tab action on Windows (and similar >> actions on macOS and Linux to jump between open apps). >> >> >> >> Initial public proposal >> >> https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/87 >> >> >> TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/819 >> >> >> TAG review status >> >> Pending >> >> Risks >> >> >> >> Interoperability and Compatibility >> >> >> >> >> >> *Gecko*: Defer (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/749 >> ) >> >> *WebKit*: No signal ( >> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/138) >> >> *Web developers*: No signals >> >> *Other signals*: >> >> WebView application risks >> >> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that >> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >> >> >> >> >> Debuggability >> >> >> >> >> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >> ? >> >> No >> >> Flag name >> >> >> >> Requires code in //chrome? >> >> False >> >> Tracking bug >> >> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1351682 >> >> Estimated milestones >> >> No milestones specified >> >> >> >> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >> >> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5168096826884096 >> >> >> *This intent message was generated by **Chrome Platform Status* >> <https://chromestatus.com/>*.* >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "blink-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/DM6PR00MB0858D182420D1601E674D8ADB3889%40DM6PR00MB0858.namprd00.prod.outlook.com >> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/DM6PR00MB0858D182420D1601E674D8ADB3889%40DM6PR00MB0858.namprd00.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. 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