862516 - Investigate supporting the mobile-web-app-capable/apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Apple has a apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta-tag (documented at http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html) that displays content in full-screen mode. We might want to support this if there are a lot of pages out there that use it.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

> We might want to support this if there are a lot of pages out there that use it.

Perhaps John might have some info about that

Comment 2

[John Jensen]

I have a store of around 1.1m webpages, and have a job running that is looking for apple-mobile-web-app-capable and other similar tags. It's running on an underpowered box so will take a few days to run, but I will report back here.

Comment 3

[John Jensen]

Based on a crawl of ~1.1m URLs from ~18000 domains in early January 2012, I have the following:

apple-mobile-web-app-capable: 157 uses on 7 domains
apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style: 131 uses on 5 domains
viewport: 650 uses on 123 domains
format-detection: 9 uses on 5 domains

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This sounds like a WONTFIX to me.

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

This is now supported in Chrome as "mobile-web-app-capable": https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/installtohomescreen

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yes please, add support for the mobile-web-app-capable meta tag. You would not get huge number of pages having it, but for those pages designed as html5 applications it's a good win. Why force people to create native apps that show an html5 page just to avoid having the urlbar in the way?

Comment 7

[labratmobi]

also we should consider adding support for manifest,
https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Comment 8

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to labratmobi from comment #7)
> also we should consider adding support for manifest,
> https://w3c.github.io/manifest/

Bug 1212648 tracks support for progressive web apps generally, including support for the W3C web app manifest.

Comment 10

[Nicolas Frandeboeuf]

Might be a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1114631.

Comment 11

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