On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Marcos Caceres <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Aras Balali Moghaddam wrote: >> It made me wonder if a similar concept is/will be available for mobile web >> apps. Can we currently update the app icon dynamically for an installed >> Firefox OS app for example? > > The icon cannot be dynamically updated, AFAIK. Updating the icon could pose a > security risk, as one app could imitate another app's icon. > > What might be nicer would be to integrate icons and web notifications. That > is, if an app generated a notification that was not yet handled, then those > are reflected on the icon.
We do allow updating icons on application update, so I don't actually see any additional security risks with dynamic updates of icons. Instead we keep the application name constant as long as the app is installed. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
