That seems like a good plan. Has anyone ever tried formalizing it and floating it around to other vendors?
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <b...@chromium.org>wrote: > This relates somewhat to how we'd like people to "install" web > applications. > > For that we figured a site would publish a manifest in some format > (there was some talk about something like the extensions manifest) > that specifies all kinds of appy things a site can do, like large > icons, protocol schemes and mime types it can handle and the URLs for > each, etc etc. > > The UA would expose some way to activate all of this functionality for > a site in "one shot"... e.g. if the site published the data via some > kind of <link> tag then a menu item in the browser might activate that > the user could use to activate it. > > -Ben > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Is this API even part of any standard? Maybe we should bring this up > on > >>> WhatWG? > >> > >> The thread title is a clue that these are specced in HTML5 :) > > > > Not really. People abuse the term HTML5. Good example: WebSockets, > > WebDatabase, LocalStorage, Workers, and many of the other APIs we > associate > > with HTML5 are not in that spec. > > Anyhow, apparently this was discussed very recently and I somehow missed > the > > discussion: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-September/023084.html > > I'll try to take a look at the thread some time soon. Ben and/or other > UI > > guys, maybe you should too. Now is the time to make noise if we think > this > > is a bad API. > > J > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
