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Runtime and Security Model for Hosted Web Applications and Packaged Applications
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Make clear that the application manifest isn't only for installable apps #42

Closed mounirlamouri closed 11 years ago

mounirlamouri commented 11 years ago

There should be some means to make allow hosted apps to be "auto discoverable" by search engines and user agents.

anssiko commented 11 years ago

Re manifest, I'd like to see us provide web developers a clear migration path from "traditional" web applications to "packaged" web applications. I believe that splitting the "Application Manifest" section into its own spec with no dependencies to the rest of the runtime spec would help get currently proprietary and features standardized for the "traditional" web applications too.

marcoscaceres commented 11 years ago

@anssiko I tend to agree that splitting into a separate document would be helpful (though I can live with what we currently have). I have most of the manifest, processing, and i18n model done in a separate doc already.

marcoscaceres commented 11 years ago

It might be helpful to link to this from the spec: http://www.w3.org/community/webappstore/wiki/Manifest

marcoscaceres commented 11 years ago

@anssiko just a note, we don't want to encourage people to make packaged apps (those should really be reserved for the small subset that need to be put into a zip file). We want to encourage app developers to use hosted web apps instead. To do that, we need to get consensus to add something to HTML to make it easy to associate a manifest with an application. If that fails, I guess we can just keep using the install() method.

marcoscaceres commented 11 years ago

Moved to: https://github.com/sysapps/manifest/issues/13