- From: Matt Giuca <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:42:35 +0000 (UTC)
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Received on Thursday, 15 March 2018 23:43:08 UTC
> In Santa Tracker's case, the name "Santa Tracker" is short enough to be unelided on a Nexus 5 and Pixel, but is elided on a Nexus 5X. I think the fact that it elides differently on different devices of the same operating system (not even "new" vs "old", but oscillating between versions) perfectly makes my case that the name should be chosen by the UA as appropriate, from a pool of developer-supplied names, rather than asking developers to supply a single "short name" (which is likely to be a name that can be seen without eliding on the developer's personal phone) and then eliding it if necessary. Clearly, the developers of Santa Tracker would prefer "Santa Tracker" over "Santa" if it would fit, but prefer "Santa" over "Santa Track…" if it does not. I'll acquiesce, though, as there are numerous technical hurdles: - The backwards incompatibility of changing the `short_name` field (or needing to add a new member). - The fact that on Android, at least with the WebAPK solution, we can't dynamically scale the app name based on the font size and available space, since it has to be set in the APK. So, closing for now. #sad -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/662#issuecomment-373557310
Received on Thursday, 15 March 2018 23:43:08 UTC