Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites

Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by sporkenfang on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:15PM (#9488372)

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

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Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by felixrieseberg on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:08PM (#9488781)

(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).

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Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by jfroma on Monday May 04, 2015 @05:48PM (#9489452)

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

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Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by sporkenfang on Monday May 04, 2015 @07:57PM (#9490050)

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

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Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by DaveVoyles on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @04:44PM (#9494850)

Yes, exactly.

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Re:Manifold.js – Create mobile apps from websites by detaro on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:17PM (#9488386)

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.

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