On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Matt Claypotch wrote: > 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)
+1 Another use case: A standard link enables someone to create a search engine spider for open web apps. It could spider the web like normal then discover the app manifest by following the link. Otherwise, an app's existence is locked into one or more marketplaces. > > Thoughts? > > ~potch > > [1] https://gist.github.com/2586957 > > -- > Matt "potch" Claypotch > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
