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Status: Closed
Owner:
Long OOO (go/where-is-mgiuca)
Closed: Nov 6
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Implement AppNow

Reported by ivan.kuc...@gmail.com, Jun 22 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.109 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
I don't know if there is any other way a Chrome user can get in touch with Chrome developers.

I have sketched a new web standard and I would like browsers to implement it: https://github.com/photopea/AppNow . If you decide not to implement it, can you at least join the discussion? What would be the right way to get W3C people join the discussion?

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
Nothing.

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? N/A

Chrome version: 59.0.3071.109  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 26.0 r0
 

Comment 1 by hdodda@chromium.org, Jun 27 2017

Cc: hdodda@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
@ivan.kuckir-- Could you please let us know the exact issue in detail and you can post your questions in "https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!home" , so that the related dev would get in touch with you for more details.

If it is chrome specific issue , please provide us the detailed steps to reproduce the issue.

Thanks!
It will probably take a long time, until this specification is ready: https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/ . It is also extremely complex. I am suggesting an alternative, which is very easy to implement and will alow site authors to improve the using experience of their web apps.

Specifically, a browser should have App Install Banner available for every website. It should work like adding a site to bookmarks, but it would add the icon into the main list of native apps in that specific OS. There are more details in the document, which I attached.
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Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 27 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "hdodda@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

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Comment 4 by hdodda@chromium.org, Jun 28 2017

Components: Platform>Apps
Labels: -Type-Bug M-61 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
THis seems to be feature request for App Install Banner to be available for chrome , hence marking this as untraiged so that it would get addressed and further inputs from dev team.

Thanks!
Status: Closed (was: Untriaged)
app manifests have launched (mostly) now - https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/desktop
Components: -Platform>Apps UI>Browser>WebAppInstalls
Owner: mgiuca@chromium.org
Platform > Apps is Chrome Apps, nobody is triaging that :(

Ivan, what is AppNow? The GitHub link is broken now. The brief description in #2 suggests that you're asking for app install banners, which we are supporting via the App Manifest. Is there anything else to this feature request?
AppNow was my suggestion for "installable apps" - "Bookmarks on steroids", very similar to App Manifest, but much simpler. Instead of the separate JSON, the data was directly in HTML (existing tags such as <meta description>, <title>, <link rel="icon">) and the instalation can only be initiated by a website (never by a browser) by calling window.install()

I guess the App Manifest is replacing it, so we can close it now.  

But I am still fighting for the site-triggered install prompt:
https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/627

And install buttons on another domains:
https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/726

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