If this is an installed-app specific problem, could it be done through the manifest instead? Using <meta> as a side-channel for this, and then furthermore going to add a document.subtitle property, seems pretty intrusive for those goals.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 2:15 AM Daniel Murphy <dmu...@chromium.org> wrote: > I've had some questions about this, so I'll try to elaborate the problems > that are being solved here (and they should probably be incorporated into > the explainer): > > - For security reasons, we require the app name to be the first thing > in the title of the app window. If the page title doesn't have this at the > front, we prepend "<appname> - " to the title. This has resulted in things > like "Gmail - <email> - Google.com Mail" as an app title, which is weird. > - The UX for the title of an 'app' window is different from a tab > title - there can be slightly different goals here for what the website > wants, so it's not uncommon for folks to want these to be different things. > - If the website tries to dynamically change these titles based on the > display-mode media query, this involves needing to store things in places > like local storage to cache the title to swap, etc. This is cumbersome and > requires local storage now, which is good to avoid. > > Because of all of these, it seemed to make sense to allow the app title > setting to just be a different thing. I wonder if maybe this name is > misleading - maybe we should make this called *app-title-suffix* or > *app-title-custom*... maybe others have better ideas here. > > This feature makes sense to me & seems pretty reasonable. > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:34 AM Yoav Weiss <yoavwe...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> +Daniel Murphy <dmu...@chromium.org> +Mason Freed <mas...@chromium.org> >> >> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 1:54 AM 'Haben Foto' via blink-dev < >> blink-dev@chromium.org> wrote: >> >>> Contact emails >>> >>> luigo...@microsoft.com, habenf...@microsoft.com >>> >>> >>> Explainer >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/DocumentSubtitle/explainer.md#html-document-subtitle-fix-installed-web-app-title-bar-text >>> >>> >>> Specification >>> >>> https://github.com/whatwg/html/compare/main...diekus:html:main >>> >>> >>> Summary >>> >>> Installed web apps can change the text on the title bar based on the >>> page's content. The current behavior is that the installed web application >>> will put the app's name from the manifest and append the page’s inner text >>> from the `<title>` HTML tag in the head of the page. This often can create >>> awkward titles for some web apps. This feature allows to specify >>> complementary information about the current window of an installed running >>> PWA. It adds a subtitle to the page to provide contextual information that >>> is displayed in the window's title bar. This replaces the text contained in >>> the HTML's title tag. >>> >>> >>> >>> Blink component >>> >>> UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls >>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:UI%3EBrowser%3EWebAppInstalls> >>> >>> Motivation >>> >>> Installed web apps cannot provide dynamic/controllable contextual >>> information in their title bar. Contextual information can be the name of >>> an open document, the section of an app or any other information that can >>> be relevant to the running installed Web app. Having this information in >>> the title bar can be useful to identify the open window when selecting >>> among open apps in surfaces like the Alt+Tab action on Windows (and similar >>> actions on macOS and Linux to jump between open apps). >>> >>> >>> >>> Initial public proposal >>> >>> https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/87 >>> >>> >>> TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/819 >>> >>> >>> TAG review status >>> >>> Pending >>> >>> Risks >>> >>> >>> >>> Interoperability and Compatibility >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *Gecko*: Defer ( >>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/749) >>> >>> *WebKit*: No signal ( >>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/138) >>> >>> *Web developers*: No signals >>> >>> *Other signals*: >>> >>> WebView application risks >>> >>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such >>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Debuggability >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests >>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> >>> ? >>> >>> No >>> >>> Flag name >>> >>> >>> >>> Requires code in //chrome? >>> >>> False >>> >>> Tracking bug >>> >>> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1351682 >>> >>> Estimated milestones >>> >>> No milestones specified >>> >>> >>> >>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status >>> >>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/5168096826884096 >>> >>> >>> *This intent message was generated by **Chrome Platform Status* >>> <https://chromestatus.com/>*.* >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "blink-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/DM6PR00MB0858D182420D1601E674D8ADB3889%40DM6PR00MB0858.namprd00.prod.outlook.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/DM6PR00MB0858D182420D1601E674D8ADB3889%40DM6PR00MB0858.namprd00.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to blink-dev+unsubscr...@chromium.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CA%2B4qT32d3T5X%2BKn_Qy0Ta93w%3DnF274Zdujn1eNAxcG0oomJwXQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CA%2B4qT32d3T5X%2BKn_Qy0Ta93w%3DnF274Zdujn1eNAxcG0oomJwXQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. 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