Hi Ben, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Ben Francis <ben@tola.me.uk> wrote: > In comparing the manifest formats for Mozilla Open Web Apps and Chrome > hosted apps I hope to converge on a common standard for *hosted* web apps, > I have less interest in packaged apps. > That's fair enough, and it's very admirable what you're doing. I myself am interested in both hosted and unhosted (as i call them) apps, and after reading http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2011/installable-web-apps-and-interoperability/(including the comments) i think we need converters like https://github.com/scottbw/crx2widget for going back and forth between all three spec branches (mozilla, google, w3c). Such a set of converters, as open source reusable tools, would have a lot of the benefits that real convergence would have, and might be a good start towards achieving actual convergence. Just like jQuery is a good way to hide differences in DOM implementations, and allows us in practice to "pretend" that these differences don't exist. To start with, is there a converter to go from mozilla format to google format and back? Should we make one?
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