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Very cool! This takes iOS's home screen web app feature to the next level with the install banner. Hopefully we'll be able to create a standard for these manifest files/meta tags so developers won't have to target specific devices. Also Apple needs to fix their web app meta tag parsing - it's super buggy in iOS 8.

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Author of the post here. Wrt to manifest, it is being specced (and hopefully ratified as a standard soon) right now and we implement it (a lot of it) - https://w3c.github.io/manifest/ - now it is just a matter of getting other browsers to support the spec too.

"We recommend the following simple Service Worker as a starting point," needs link.

Urgh. Fixing.

Update: Fixed. Thanks.

The animated gif in the announcement goes by way too fast. Could you slow it down by 2x or so?

I recorded it at real-time speed iirc.

Perhaps you weren't waiting long enough before touching the next button while recording it? Someone seeing it for the first time needs time to take in what's on the current screen before seeing the transition to the next one.

For what is worth I could follow the gif without trouble. Perhaps it's harder to follow if you aren't used to Android?

That could be it. As an iOS user, I had to watch it loop through a couple times to understand it (and even to find the beginning). I felt it was moving a bit too fast.

Looping animated gifs are just a very, very inefficient means of communicating. It would be very easy to follow this one if you could have it start at the exact moment you fixed your attention on it, but the looping means you come in halfway and it makes absolutely no sense. I had to sit and concentrate on it for a couple of loops just to determine the starting point of the "story" it was telling, and once I figured that out, it still took a couple run throughs for me to comprehend what it was trying to show me. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I wish this trend would go away.

> Wrt to manifest, it is being specced ... - https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Today I learned that W3C is using Github for working with specs. Nice!

That's certainly going with the times.

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