[Bug 12577] New: Offline Web applications: we should discourage the inclusion of the main page in the manifest

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12577

           Summary: Offline Web applications: we should discourage the
                    inclusion of the main page in the manifest
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: benjamin@webkit.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


In the introduction, one can find the following note:
"Authors are encouraged to include the main page in the manifest also, but in
practice the page that referenced the manifest is automatically cached even if
it isn't explicitly mentioned."

The problem is the following pattern I noticed for web applications:
-the web application uses a single document named index.html
-it is served as the default page of some directory e.g.:
http://example.com/webapp/
-the manifest include index.html

This causes the user-agent to download the web application twice: once for '/',
once for index.html

I think we should say instead that it is not required to list the document
itself in the manifest.

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Received on Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:25:04 UTC