Re: Manifest format MIME type

• From: Fabrice Desre <fabrice@mozilla.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:40:36 -0800
• To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
• CC: "public-sysapps@w3.org" <public-sysapps@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <512CF394.3070600@mozilla.com>

Hi Marcos,

On 02/26/2013 06:05 AM, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> For the application manifest, the runtime spec currently defines a MIME type and an API for installing applications. Is it envisioned that a user agent can will acquire an install URL from an external source (and thus not rely on the API, but instead depend purely the MIME type)? 
> 
> If no, meaning that only the API (install() method) must be used to install an application, then it seems unlikely we will need the MIME type. 

In Gecko we check the mime type for cross-origin installs, and there's
also a bug open to trigger an install() call when we fetch a resource
from this type: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756976

 Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation

Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 17:41:04 UTC