- From: Matt Giuca <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:20:00 -0700
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Received on Friday, 13 September 2019 05:20:22 UTC
> There’s actually a lot of interest from developers for Apple to implement icon support (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183937) and `beforeinstallprompt` support (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193959). I don't know if any of the replies on those bugs are from Apple / WebKit engineers. Having a handful (tens) of +1s from external developers doesn't really give us much of a signal. It would be good to hear from Apple on this. We (Chrome) would be open to deprecating BeforeInstallPrompt in favour of a different programmatic install API (I don't think there's a lot of love for the API we settled on), but it is fairly heavily entrenched on the open web, having been available in Chrome (and I believe other browsers like Samsung and Opera) for around 5 years. Chrome's [usage metrics for BIP](https://chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/1436) show that this is currently used on 1.5% of all page loads (though I'm not exactly sure what we're measuring here; possibly just any mention of the global object `BeforeInstallPromptEvent`), which is too high to remove outright. -- 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/782#issuecomment-531101772
Received on Friday, 13 September 2019 05:20:22 UTC