BTW this is something that we want to pursue independently of whether or not it's in HTML5... we already have app frames/app shortcuts, we would like to streamline this some. If someone wants to work with other vendors to come up with a standardized version great, so long as the UA controls the UX and can extend the feature set in a compatible way.
-Ben On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
