Re: [manifest] Convert "Icon object" into a generic "image object" (#327)

On March 6, 2015 at 9:40:38 PM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (notifications@github.com) wrote:
> That could be considered a "splash" but that will not allow creating a fake outline of  
> the app UI, which people can do and are encouraged to do on iOS

(before you reply: we should probably move this discussion to the splash screen bug #9!) 

OK, but we can't follow iOS here: unlike with iOS, there are a billion different screen sizes/dimensions/density combinations that an app built for the web is supposed to adapt to (and that's just Android! add FxOS, Tizen, or whatever, and the number just keeps on climbing). 

The tradeoff that cross-platform app makes is giving up the ability to target an OS specifically (though you could, of course, do user agent sniffing if you wanted to be pedantic ... alternatively, client-hints might actually help here too - so a developer can send down a auto-generated splash screen that exactly matches the user's device-width/height). 





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