Re: Single instance mode vs multiple instances in manifest spec

On 25/04/13 01:52, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:52 AM, John Lyle <john.lyle@cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> but the
>>> answer is yes. Two hosted apps can come from the same origin. And
>>> if/when we support "real" origins for packaged apps, two packaged apps
>>> can come from the same origin, or a packaged app can come from the
>>> same origin as a hosted app.
>>
>> OK. Do you expect that this working group will initially define a standard
>> supporting multiple apps with the same origin?Or will we start with the
>> one-app-per-origin approach and then update the document later on?
> 
> I don't think we should specify something just because Firefox OS has
> implemented it in a certain way. We should specify what we think is
> the best solution. Though certainly the process of implementing a
> solution will provide a lot of useful information regarding what we
> think is the best solution. But I would say that in this case the
> implementation experience is that one-app-per-origin is *not* a good
> solution.
> 
> So I think we should specify that multiple-apps-per-origin MUST be supported.

Agreed. I have opened the following issue to track this:
https://github.com/sysapps/runtime/issues/98

--
Mounir

Received on Thursday, 25 April 2013 16:25:14 UTC