- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 02:06:41 -0700
- To: noloader@gmail.com
- Cc: Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@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 *think*, though I'm not 100% sure, that this works in Firefox for Android as well. I'm not sure what you mean by "side loaded", but we're definitely trying to allow normal websites to provide the same experience as the firefox marketplace. The user doesn't have to turn on any "developer mode" or otherwise do anything otherwise "special" to use such a marketplace. The user simply needs to browse to the website/webstore and start using it. The manifest spec that is being developed in this WG is the first step towards standardizing the same capability set. It doesn't yet have the concept of an "app store", instead any website can self-host itself as an app. It's not clear to me if there's interest from other browser vendors for allowing websites to act as app stores, for now we're focusing the standard on simpler use cases. / Jonas
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