Summary: In Firefox 33 we shipped support for msApplication-TileImage/Color meta tags in pages. These are meant to be shown on our homescreen in place of thumbnails when they are available. See http://digdug2k.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/better-tiles-in-fennec/ for a screenshot. These allow the site to provide images/background colors for tiles in our homescreen, hopefully resulting in a better user experience for users than the thumbnails (or favicons if the site has Cache-Control headers set) that we currently show.
Bug: bug 1014712 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1014712 Link to standard: There is no public standard in place for these meta-tags and none in progress either. Microsoft's implementation blog post is here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/08/high-quality-visuals-for-pinned-sites-in-windows-8.aspx. AFAIK, these aren't supported on any other platforms/browsers. Opera at one point supported the view-mode media query (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678173) for generating these types of thumbnails (http://www.w3.org/TR/view-mode/#dfn-minimized). Not sure if that carried over when they moved to blink. Implementing support for view-mode is bug 678173. Platform coverage: This is Android only. Estimated or target release: 33 Preference behind which this will be implemented: There is no pref for this feature. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
