On 08/14/2012 11:08 AM, Anant Narayanan wrote: > On 08/14/2012 06:32 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: >> I actually find updating of packaged apps much less understood from my >> POV, as anything I can think of feels so un-webby and is another thing >> that increases the rift between the "webby" model I just described and >> the "not-of-the-web" packaged model. ;-) > > I agree that packaged apps are not webby, however they are well > understood in the sense that all other app stores use this model (iOS, > Android and now even the Chrome store) and that updating a static set of > resources in a zip file is less complex than attempting to "version" a > live resource like a web application.
It's been around a bit but if folks haven't seen it, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps/PackagingProposal offers some good justification/discussion of why packaged apps are needed despite their un-webbyness. Wil _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
