Support manifest.json to install as WebApp #1757
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Hmm, interesting! Thank you for the contribution! I'm not sure I see the motivation though. Bridgy isn't really an end user application that you interact with regularly, it's more of a service that you turn on and then let run in the background. I'm curious, do you look at or use the Bridgy web UI regularly? eg https://brid.gy/mastodon/@kiko@indieweb.social, or another user page, or something else? If so, what do you do? |
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(I noticed that you also added manifest.json to @aaronpk's webmention.io, which I'd have the same question about.) |
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Yes, I check both brid.gy and webmention.io regularly, because I keep experiencing dropouts. And having both sites installed as web apps makes everything easier for me. |
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Aha, that makes sense. I get how PWA support would help. Out of curiosity, could you describe the dropouts? I'm curious what's happening there. |
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Sure, but it doesn't seem to follow a pattern and I don't know where it sometimes gets stuck. I syndicate a post on Mastodon and get some reactions, which I load into the post via JS. |
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Got it! Bridgy only automatically backfeeds to your 30 most recent posts, https://brid.gy/about#missing . Are the missing reactions maybe past that? If by "manual poll," you mean you enter the post URL into the "Resend for post" box, that could be it. But if you just mean that you're clicking the "Poll now" button, it's probably something else. |
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No, it's not the recent 30 problem. I don't publish so often. If it happens, then definitely at posts below that limit. Whatever or however, as much as I love your service, my brain sometimes despairs at the complexity of the matter. Then I'm happy to be able to press a few buttons ;) ... But I vow to look more for fault patterns. |
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| "name": "brid.gy", | |||
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Sure, I meant to change it to "Bridgy", not remove it
| "background_color": "#ffffff", | ||
| "display": "standalone", | ||
| "orientation": "portrait-primary", | ||
| "related_applications": [], |
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Not necessary, but I'd like to, since they're optional 😁 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest#members
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Misunderstanding here from my side :D. I meant: They are not necessary, because optional
| "related_applications": [], | ||
| "prefer_related_applications": false, | ||
| "icons": [ | ||
| { "src": "manifest-icons/icon-72x72.png", "sizes": "72x72", "type": "image/png" }, |
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These aren't all necessary, right? I'd rather avoid maintaining lots of new logo files. Should we maybe just use some of the existing static/bridgy_logo* files?
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Many different devices types needs different icons. These are the minimum for Chrome, Safari, Edge and so on.
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Huh. Do those browsers not resize existing icons if there's not already a preferred size? Got a link with details?
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It's best practice many of these generators also use and low level for the main OS's Android and iOS. For one of my PWAs, I took the effort to look at all the specs and came up with over 80 icons, including the maskable stuff :)
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Hmm. It sounds like the major browser and platforms generally scale down icons fine: GoogleChrome/lighthouse#291 (comment)
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My experience is rather "should", but it is actually more of a marginal problem. Therefore, two or three slightly larger icons are also adequate
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Great! There are currently six JPGs with opaque white background and five PNGs with transparent background, across a range of sizes and aspect ratios. Maybe we start with these, either some or all of them, and see how it goes?
- bridgy_logo.jpg
- bridgy_logo_128.jpg
- bridgy_logo_16.jpg
- bridgy_logo_75.jpg
- bridgy_logo_square.jpg
- bridgy_logo_square_1024.jpg
- bridgy_logo_with_alpha.png
- bridgy_logo_with_alpha_128.png
- bridgy_logo_with_alpha_16.png
- bridgy_logo_with_alpha_75.png
- bridgy_logo_with_alpha_square_1024.png
I would love to see brid.gy installable as a WebApp on Desktop and Mobile. Here's the manifest.json and all referenced images