On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:28 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 > Would it make more sense to link to the preferred store page for installation, instead of directly to the manifest? Even for unpaid apps there seems to be some features where we'd encourage people to go through a store, since the store may in effect vouch for the app with respect to some permissions. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
