On iOS their is no fixed limit for the short name (bundle identifier) but if its more then 12 or so characters (depending on characters used as its not a fixed width font) it will chop out the middle chars and add an ellipsis.
On May 17, 2013, at 4:23 AM, Mounir Lamouri <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
