Hi Konstantin,
So, is the main use case here determining whether the application is
installed? What URL schemes do you use for this? What kind of UX do
you present to the user if the application is not installed?
Also, how does this picture fit into environments where the application
is not even provided (hypothetically speaking, let's say on Android)?
Thanks!
Ehsan
On 2014-04-01, 11:30 AM, Konstantin Welke wrote:
Hi!
As you want to get rid of all plugins (NPAPI), you say: "If there are
plugin features which are not available in the web platform, we encourage
developers to post their use cases to mozilla.dev.platform project list”.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Plugins
We have such a feature: We currently use a plugin to detect whether one of
our applications is installed and then launch it via iframe. This will no
longer be possible without plugins, while providing a good user experience.
My colleague Ben is currently proposing this API to public-weba...@w3.org,
modeled after Win8/IE11’s navigator.msLaunchUri:
http://bengjohnson.github.io/ExternalProtocolSpecification.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/0791.html
msLaunchUri MSDN docs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/jj154912(v=vs.85).aspx
Would you consider such an API for Firefox?
Cheers,
Kosta
PS: Sorry for the long signature...
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