Re: [manifest] Is the Webapp Manifest spec ready for FPWD?

On 6/4/12 9:16 PM, "Fabrice Desre" <fabrice@mozilla.com> wrote:

>On 06/04/2012 10:38 AM, Tobie Langel wrote:
>> On 6/4/12 6:41 PM, "Fabrice Desre" <fabrice@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tobie,
>>>
>>> On 06/04/2012 03:03 AM, Tobie Langel wrote:
>>>> On 6/2/12 6:54 AM, "Fabrice Desré" <fabrice@mozilla.com> wrote:
>>>>> We're working on pre-loading the appcache at install time when the
>>>>> appcache path is specified in the manifest. See
>>>>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702369 for the b2g
>>>>> support,
>>>>> and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753990 for desktop
>>>>> support.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds nice. How do normal web pages link to their own config
>>>> file? I
>>>> haven't seen that mentioned in the spec draft.
>>>
>>> What do you call the config file here?
>>
>>The Web Application Manifest. (Sorry for the confusion, the Widget
>>spec calls roughly the same thing a configuration document.)
>>
>
>It's not linked directly in a <link> or other tag, but passed as a
>parameter to the .install() method.

Right, in the app store model. Surely, you're also planning to support
background installs of apps when visiting the apps URL in conjunction with
AppCache. In this case, how will the Web Application Manifest work? How
will it be referenced by the document? Are you planning on something like:

    <html webapp_manifest=path/to/config.webapp
manifest=path/to/manifest.appcache>

--tobie

Received on Monday, 4 June 2012 20:32:09 UTC