On 9/16/12 3:29 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
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?
Yes! We actually supported this feature in earlier versions of WebRT, it
was called:
<link rel="application-manifest" href="/manifest.webapp">
(eg:
https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-flickr-connector/blob/master/index.html#L7)
I have no strong opinions about app-manifest vs. application-manifest :)
Cheers,
-Anant
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