Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Web App Launch Handler (Issue #683)

Sorry about the radio silence, I was temporarily fighting fires on a different project but can now dedicate my time back on this one.


> It is a bit confusing that the repo's main readme [1] doesn't mention this explainer or what is the current proposal being pursued, as well as what is not being pursued any longer
> 
> [1] https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/blob/main/README.md

It was very out of date indeed, [updated](https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/blob/main/README.md).


> The explainer starts out with this line:
> 
> > Authors: alancutter@, mgiuca@, dominickn@ Last updated: 2021-07-09
> 
> I don't know if you put the at signs at the wrong end of your GitHub usernames or what, but it looks pretty weird.

> The explainer is written in a way that assumes the reader has a lot more context than is necessarily the case. I think it would be useful to rewrite the explainer taking into account our advice in the [Explainer explainer](https://tag.w3.org/explainers/).

> Hi @alancutter , we had a discussion in this week's TAG meeting and have the following comments:
> 
> 1. It would be good to rewrite the explainer, for example, adding more use cases from the end-user need perspective, you can refer the tips in: https://tag.w3.org/explainers/

Adding fix ups and extra use case paragraphs to the overview. https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/pull/50


> 2. This proposal may also related to [MiniApp lifecycle](https://www.w3.org/TR/miniapp-lifecycle/), it is better to be aligned or reusable as much as possible. Probably @QingAn can also have a look on this together.

Filed https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/issues/52 to dig into this. It looks quite hairy, I'll need some assistance in understanding the differences between web apps and MiniApps when it comes to launching and window instances.


> When a client is being navigated, will this mean that a new entry is added to the session history so that you can get back to earlier state? (like right click on titlebar and click 'back')
> 
> Maybe we could even get rid of `"existing-client"` given that a site can always add a consumer and manually navigate?

This is a heavy feedback item that I filed https://github.com/WICG/sw-launch/issues/47 to dig into, please respond to the follow up discussion in that thread.

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