Re: New manifest spec - ready for FPWD?

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 23:59, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote:
> On Tue Nov 26 04:02 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote:
> > Over the last few weeks, a few of us folks in the Web Mob IG have been
> > investigating the use cases and requirements for bookmarking web apps to
> > home
> > screen. The output of that research  is this living document:
> > http://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/
> > 
> 
> Would seem useful to add: MAY provide the application version number.

Concept of version on the Web is pretty weak.

> > That (ongoing) research is helping to inform the manifest spec. A bunch
> > of us
> > have been working together on IRC, twitter, etc. on a new
> > version of the manifest
> > spec:
> > http://w3c.github.io/manifest/
> 
> Any thoughts on adding on 'app' tag? Why is the manifest in JSON?
> 
> <head>
>  <app name="Best News!" version="1.1"
>  manifest="more-detailed-stuff.foo"/>
> </head>

Isn't it pretty hairy to add any element to the <head> because of the
parsing algorithm?

-- Mounir

Received on Wednesday, 27 November 2013 14:21:06 UTC