On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > On Monday, November 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > > I think there's still a large problem with these applications. That > > > we're not giving them the same cache context as they would have inside > > > the browser. That makes a lot of things that are normal interactions > > > on the web today, a lot harder to implement. > > > > > > > > > > > Can you please provide a few more details and use cases. Or file bugs: > > https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues > > > > > > It seems the onus for that should be on those attempting to change the > model. I think we should keep the current model. > I think its fine to put the onus on those working on this (mostly me) - but, I want to make sure we are aligned so I don’t go off in the weeds and come back with something you and others don’t like. I also don’t want us to change the current browser caching model unless it’s absolutely required. The spec is currently silent about this. > > > I think anything that deviates from the current browser security model > > > through some kind of end-user UI is not good. > > > > > > > > > > > Not sure what you mean here? Which UI are you talking about? > > Bookmarking. And in particular bookmarking to home screen should not > have dramatically different security properties from just bookmarking. > They ought to be identical (and indeed, have negligible effect). > Thanks for clarifying. I think I agree with this, but I’m currently investigating what the implications are. I have a *very early* draft of this research [1], and the good thing is that at least IE on Windows 8, Firefox for Android, and Chrome for Android tend to agree with you (will push that part of the research to the document soon). [1] http://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/ -- Marcos Caceres _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
