I don't think Hixie was a huge fan of it iirc ;-) He didn't like the idea of "installing" webapps... though that's just a UA defined semantic.
-Ben On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]> >> >> 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: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
