In developing app testing tools, we frequently want a discovery mechanism to let a page point to its manifest. Given that we presently don't have a required known path to an app's manifest, I'd like to propose we formalize an *optional* <link> tag that a website can use to indicate it is an app.
I made up a sample tag on the fly for an apps hackathon shim [1]. It looks like this: <link rel="app-manifest" href="manifest.webapp"> Use cases for this include: - Visiting the website of an app in the Gaia browser can offer to install the site as an app - Developer tools can identify this link to assist app developers in testing their apps (e.g. offering to preview them in a b2g runtime) Thoughts? ~potch [1] https://gist.github.com/2586957 -- Matt "potch" Claypotch _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
