Re: [w3c/manifest] [Breaking] "scope" member now defaults to parent of "start_url" (#647)

mgiuca commented on this pull request.



>        </p>
+      <div class="note" data-link-for="WebAppManifest">
+        <p>
+          If the <a>scope</a> member is not present in the manifest, it
+          defaults to the directory containing the <a>start_url</a> member. For

I know, I was trying to avoid using the word "directory" but I just ran with it. Only in non-normative text. I can change it but do you have any suggested wording?

> it's still somewhat problematic

What do you mean? The wording is problematic, or the concept? I think the concept of cutting off the last part of the path is very well defined on the web (it's the standard URL resolution algorithm). The *reason* resolution works this way is because it allows HTML pages to reference a file in the same directory just by name, which is why I described it this way.

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