On 17/05/13 09:49, Marcos Caceres wrote: > Many apps have a long name e.g., "Weather Channel" but when displayed in a > context with limited space, the name won't fit. As such, on other platforms, > many native apps provide an alternate short name. For example, the "Github > issues" app shows up as "Issues" on my phone. Same with "Robot Unicorn Attack > 2", which shows up on the home screen as "RUA2". > > When searching for an app (on the phone and in a store), both the long name > and the short name can be used as indexes to match on. > > Is this something we should add to the manifest format (i.e., "short_name")? > I can add it on the W3C side, if people think it's a good idea.
I wonder how the homescreen in Firefox OS is dealing with this problem if it is trying to deal with it at all. Did you check Marcos? (CCing Vivien who might know.) As already said offline, my concern with that proposal is that the "short name" might have different size in different contexts. In other words, some runtimes might take 12 characters, some 18 characters, etc. If the runtime is asked to always use whether one or the other depending on the context and the name will never be guaranteed to fit the given space, it might work. Do other platforms like iOS require the short name to be of a given size? -- Mounir _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
