Re: [manifest] orientation member

Hmm. Does this take us back to viewmodes [1]? For example you also have the ability on Windows Phone to have the live tiles view, with primary and secondary tiles, and both square and wide tiles...

Also it may be necessary to consider where apps are intended not to take over the device, but as additional content within another platform, e.g.: OpenSocial has 'canvas', 'profile' views, etc. However I think OpenSocial is heading towards the option of just using adaptive CSS, along with contextual metadata from the container platform via AJAX.

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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/view-mode/

On 3 Dec 2013, at 13:47, Mounir Lamouri wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013, at 23:32, John Mellor wrote:
>>> I definitely agree with that. Though, we should allow both syntaxes
>>> (array and string).
>>> If we want a more complex system later, we could move to that. For the
>>> moment, I think we should keep it simple.
>> 
>> 
>> It seems an even simpler option would be to simply omit viewport from the
>> manifest for now unless someone can provide a more compelling reason for
>> it
>> being there.
> 
> I think those two options could live side by side. I guess on advantage
> of the manifest is that the orientation can be set once and would apply
> for the entire app.
> 
>> How do the various UAs plan on avoiding a white flash of unpainted page
>> when launching web apps? One potential solution to the white flash might
>> be
>> to delay opening a window for the web app until first paint. In which
>> case,
>> you wouldn't want to rotate the system UI before launching your window
>> anyway...
> 
> Interestingly, Chrome Apps is experimenting that: delaying showing new
> window until the first paint happens to prevent a white flash. It is
> only an experiment because there is the problem of the window not
> showing for a long time if the first paint takes a long time to happen.
> I think doing that on mobile would be easier because there is usually
> one window showing at a time so the user would understand that the app
> is being loaded. I'm a bit digressing though.
> 
> --
> Mounir
>