So... how is this better than Apache Cordova?

felixrieseberg · on May 4, 2015

(Disclaimer: I work for John Shewchuck)

W3C is working on Web App Manifests (http://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/), allowing websites to declare app-like properties. ManifoldJS uses that standard for those platforms that support it, but falls back to Cordova for those who don't. Cordova is awesome, but the W3C also considers work done at Mozilla (Firefox Open Web Apps), Google (Chrome Hosted Apps) and stuff we did (Windows 8 had local web apps, Windows 10 extends over to hosted web apps).

jfroma · on May 4, 2015

Wouldn't be better to just fix Cordova for this? Like adding support for those manifests

sporkenfang · on May 4, 2015

So does this eventually lead to a great merger between the ideas of "web site" and "app"?

DaveVoyles · on May 5, 2015

Yes, exactly.

detaro · on May 4, 2015

It uses Cordova somehow:

> When the platform supports hosted apps, we create them natively, when they don’t we use Cordova to pollyfill the functionality.