On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/05/12 17:09, Anant Narayanan wrote: > > The user is trusting the UA to implement the apps specification > correctly. > > Why would the UA want to implement it correctly if it was in the user's > best interest to implement it wrongly? It is the _user_ agent, after all. > I don't see how ignoring installs_allowed_from is in the user's best interest. If it's a paid application, then ignoring installs_allowed_from is only a way to install a non-working application. If it's a free application then you are going to a lot of trouble to do something you could do already if you just went to the right store. Anyone can link to a Marketplace installation page. If the application has its own self-installation, anyone can link to that too. Perhaps it would make sense to let an application declare its self-installation page (or maybe just its preferred installation page, including the Marketplace), so if you want to do some kind of index of applications you could do so, by simply scraping known application stores (including the Marketplace) for manifest URLs. A store has a special relationship with the applications you install through the store, but installation and linking are different things. Ian _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
