RE: New manifest spec - ready for FPWD?

On Wed Nov 27 09:20 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> 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.
> 

Depends how you look at the future of applications. Web/http needs to evolve, it was built for delivery of information not apps.
Versioning means there's no need to parse a manifest on every single request.

> > > 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?
> 

I'm not sure what you mean by hairy, it's simpler to have important metadata directly in the HTML. 

Received on Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:32:46 UTC