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Web App Manifest - Application Information
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Do we need a short description? #4

Open aarongustafson opened 4 years ago

aarongustafson commented 4 years ago

This is a common key on app stores. Alternately, should we suggest a "safe" maximum length?

marcoscaceres commented 4 years ago

Yeah, safe is probably better... the description fields is kinda bad for a long description purpose because it doesn't support markup and paragraphs. I wonder if those are best handled "in store".

jgw96 commented 4 years ago

Love the idea of description possibly supporting markup! I wonder if the "safe" max length here may artificially turn "description" into a short description in a way? I feel there should still be a separate field for a short description as there are use cases for both a specific long and short description.

marcoscaceres commented 4 years ago

Love the idea of description possibly supporting markup!

Sure risky tho, because then the site needs to sanitize it and it gets complicated very quickly: how much markup is allowed, what tags, markdown? etc.

This reminds me, we need a security consideration that these unrestrained inputs are wide open for XSS attacks on the store front when a manifest is ingested. Similarly, a manifest can attack the JSON parser.

marcoscaceres commented 4 years ago

I wonder if the "safe" max length here may artificially turn "description" into a short description in a way?

I think stores are in a better position to hide long descriptions. They can just "..." long ones, and provide users with a way of expanding a description.