Re: [webkit-dev] Web App Manifest Standard

[David Quesada]

> On Oct 24, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Michael Catanzaro  wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> If this is implemented in WebKit, how do you envision applications should 
> consume the information?

The manifest would primarily be used when the user installs and later launches 
a web app, but some of its metadata (short_name, description, icons, 
theme_color, background_color) could have other uses.

> Do you plan to add API for Safari to use to access the web app metadata? If 
> so, cool: we might follow up with a corresponding GLib API, since that would 
> be useful for the GTK and WPE ports as well. If not, how do you plan for this 
> to work?

I’m going to start by exposing these functionalities to applications:

1. Add API on the top-level browsing context to fetch the metadata and provide 
it to the application (i.e. run the steps at 
https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/#dfn-steps-for-obtaining-a-manifest 
 then 
invoke a callback function with a manifest object) The exact time this fetch 
happens is up to the implementation to decide.
2. Add API for specifying an application manifest to apply when creating a new 
top-level browsing context. This is needed since some properties of the 
manifest can affect the behavior of the web content. (This would likely be 
added as a new property on WKWebViewConfiguration, I’m not sure what the 
equivalent is for other ports.) This API would be used when setting up the web 
view when a user opens a web app.

- David

> 
> Michael
> 

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[webkit-dev] Web App Manifest Standard

[David Quesada]

Hello webkit-dev,

I’m starting work on implementing the Web App Manifest standard. This standard 
describes a way for authors to provide browsers additional metadata (e.g. name, 
description, icons, theme colors, screenshots, related native applications, and 
scope URL) about web applications.

Spec:
https://w3c.github.io/manifest/ 

Bugzilla:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158205 


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