On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Matt Claypotch <[email protected]> wrote:
> In developing app testing tools, we frequently want a discovery
> mechanism to let a page point to its manifest. Given that we presently
> don't have a required known path to an app's manifest, I'd like to
> propose we formalize an *optional* <link> tag that a website can use
> to indicate it is an app.
>
> I made up a sample tag on the fly for an apps hackathon shim [1]. It
> looks like this:
>
> <link rel="app-manifest" href="manifest.webapp">
>
> Use cases for this include:
>
> - Visiting the website of an app in the Gaia browser can offer to
> install the site as an app
> - Developer tools can identify this link to assist app developers in
> testing their apps (e.g. offering to preview them in a b2g runtime)
>
> Thoughts?

This looks great to me. I don't even have bikeshedding comments :)

Anant, is this something we can put in the current webapp-manifest drafts?

/ Jonas
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