On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> On 15/05/13 06:51, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > * Rely on UA detection and let servers serve different manifests for
> > different platforms.
> > * Do nothing and see how much people complain.
>
>
>
> I would go with "Do nothing and see how much people complain.".
I agree.
> I prefer
> the idea of having the UA doing the right thing than having platform
> specific icons that might end up with developers showing a platform-X
> icon on platform-Y because they don't bother having an icon for platform-Y.
>
> FWIW, I think that validating the manifest isn't solving this problem
> because developers can easily target multiple platforms (X, Y, Z) and
> use one of those icons (say X) for any other platform so if you use
> platform A, B or C you will have to enjoy icon X even if it doesn't
> match your platform conventions. Making sure there is no specific icons
> will force developers to have platform neutral icons (and then UA will
> do the right thing) or target only one platform - which is unlikely to
> happen.
>
> Also, we can go from this solution to a solution with platform specific
> icons if we want but we can't go the other way around so I would prefer
> to take baby steps as long as we don't have a urgent need to go faster.
> Given the answers to Marcos' questions, I understand that there is not
> yet any strong pressure by developers to have this feature.
What Mounir said.
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