Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-03 Thread Marcos
On June 2, 2014 at 4:52:41 PM, Alex Russell (slightly...@google.com) wrote: The Chrome team is excited about this direction and is collaborating on the manifest format in order to help make aspects of this real. In particular we're excited to see a Service Worker entry added to the

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-02 Thread Jonas Sicking
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? The webapps platform that we use in FirefoxOS and Firefox Desktop allows any website to be an app store. I

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-02 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 02/06/14 11:06, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? The webapps platform that we use in FirefoxOS and Firefox Desktop

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-02 Thread Alex Russell
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Jonas Sicking jo...@sicking.cc wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton noloa...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? The webapps platform that we use

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-01 Thread Daniel Appelquist
On 31 May 2014, at 04:03, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Brendan Eichbren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-06-01 Thread Paul Theriault
On 31 May 2014, at 5:00 am, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Brendan Eichbren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-31 Thread Mounir Lamouri
On Sat, 31 May 2014, at 10:40, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I have a question about Use Cases for Installable WebApps located at https://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/. Under section Add to Homescreen, the document states: ... giving developers the choice to tightly integrate their

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-31 Thread James Greene
You're probably think of IE's Pinned Sites concept on Windows 8: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg491731.aspx Sincerely, James Greene Sent from my [smart?]phone On May 31, 2014 10:35 AM, Mounir Lamouri mou...@lamouri.fr wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014, at 10:40, Jeffrey Walton

WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
I have a question about Use Cases for Installable WebApps located at https://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/. Under section Add to Homescreen, the document states: ... giving developers the choice to tightly integrate their web applications into the OS directly from the Web

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-30 Thread Brendan Eich
Jeffrey Walton wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? Firefox OS wants this. /be

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Brendan Eich bren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? Firefox OS wants this. Thanks Brendan. As a second related question, is an

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-30 Thread Brendan Eich
Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Brendan Eichbren...@mozilla.org wrote: Jeffrey Walton wrote: Are there any platforms providing the feature? Has the feature gained any traction among the platform vendors? Firefox OS wants this. Thanks Brendan. As a second related

Re: WebApp installation via the browser

2014-05-30 Thread marc fawzi
Another question about the subject https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/developers_guide This says that they can also run in the background, which is huge. I'm not sure if they support content scripts like extensions and packaged apps do. I would love to find out if the spec says