[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 198673] Need to way to feature-detect for "Add to home screen" instructions

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198673

Adriana Jara <ajara at google.com> changed:

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--- Comment #14 from Adriana Jara <ajara at google.com> ---
I am interested here in the comparison between add to homescreen and bookmarks, and how browsers never saw the need to add the .bookmark() api, seems to me that developers never saw an incentive to ask for such API, but they have gone to great lengths to have instructions and a way to guide users to add to homescreen, they probably see a greater interaction from users that add to homescreen than from users that create bookmarks.

We don't see incentives to create bookmarks in web sites in general, but we do see incentives to go visit the app store and get their apps also, this too shows that the use case is different and that developers are interested in having this functionality for web apps. Might even be the reason they created a web app, the ability to acquire users directly a click away. 

I'm not advocating for the BIP mechanics, I'm advocating for not shutting down the idea of developers being able to trigger an installation (after a user gesture), just because something that works technically similar in the browsers (bookmarking) didn't have such interest from developers, and because the first iteration (BIP) that was experimented with in Chromium maybe wasn't the best approach.

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