On Friday, 17 May 2013 at 12:23, Mounir Lamouri 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.) I checked, it looks like this (fade away): https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/870154/440986/c565f88a-b10c-11e2-97ec-56d7a53fe5a1.png > 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. Sure, but short name can be the named preferred for the home screen or other restricted contexts, while the name is the name of the application. The character limit is not relevant IMO, just the context in which the short name is used. > 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. It doesn't need to be particularly clever. Short name takes precedence over name, depending on context. > > Do other platforms like iOS require the short name to be of a given size? Not that I know of. But it would not make any sense to limit the size - it's more of a context thing. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
