Re: follow up on service workers for publishing platform

On Dec 1, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org<mailto:ivan@w3.org>> wrote:

Let me try to be a little bit more specific for this one. PWP being a kind of a conceptual thingy, I think what we have to talk about is what would we have to see in a manifest *representing* a PWP. What are the information that we need to get the whole architecture running?

(We have a reference to manifests and their importance in the document, but it is only a skeleton without meat:-)


In the Acme Publishing example, the manifest exists only to tell the service worker what files to cache to allow offline reading. I've also been experimenting with using the web application manifest spec [1]  to gain some additional functionality:

1. Allowing a publication to be saved to the home screen (maybe Santa will bring me an android device so I can test this)
2. Providing a title and icon for such a publication.
3. Defining which file should be opened first when a publication is saved (start_url)
4. Hinting at an appropriate display mode
5. Defining related applications (could the publications be opened in a formal ebook reading system app?)
6. Defining a preferred orientation for the publication (such "rendering metadata" is common in EPUB3 Fixed Layout).

and so on.

I'd love to see more concrete examples of what functions a manifest must serve.

Thanks!

Dave


[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/
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