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 _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
