On 9 December 2013 09:33:47 Yoav Weiss <y...@yoav.ws> wrote:
IMO, it might be better not to define an explicit way to inline the
manifest, and let authors simply use data URIs to do that, if they see such
a need.
e.g. <link rel=manifest href="data:application/manifest+json,{ ... }">
If this becomes a common authoring pattern, an explicit mechanism might be
a good fit. Otherwise, there may not be a need.
My suggestion is to define manifest in terms of <meta> and <link> elements
whenever possible (e.g. manifest "name" duplicates meta "application-name"
defined in HTML and there are other overlapping meta tags and link relations).
This will reduce spec duplication/overlap/conflicts and at the same time
provide basic "inline manifest" equivalent and gradual migration path for
pages that currently use meta tags (if author decides that their meta tags
take too much space they can migrate the tags to an external manifest).
Here's bug for this: https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/97
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regards, Kornel
