On Wed Nov 27 09:20 AM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013, at 23:59, Jonathan Bond-Caron wrote: > > On Tue Nov 26 04:02 PM, Marcos Caceres wrote: > > > Over the last few weeks, a few of us folks in the Web Mob IG have > > > been investigating the use cases and requirements for bookmarking > > > web apps to home screen. The output of that research is this living > > > document: > > > http://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/ > > > > > > > Would seem useful to add: MAY provide the application version number. > > Concept of version on the Web is pretty weak. >
Depends how you look at the future of applications. Web/http needs to evolve, it was built for delivery of information not apps. Versioning means there's no need to parse a manifest on every single request. > > > That (ongoing) research is helping to inform the manifest spec. A > > > bunch of us have been working together on IRC, twitter, etc. on a > > > new version of the manifest > > > spec: > > > http://w3c.github.io/manifest/ > > > > Any thoughts on adding on 'app' tag? Why is the manifest in JSON? > > > > <head> > > <app name="Best News!" version="1.1" > > manifest="more-detailed-stuff.foo"/> > > </head> > > Isn't it pretty hairy to add any element to the <head> because of the parsing > algorithm? > I'm not sure what you mean by hairy, it's simpler to have important metadata directly in the HTML.
