Intent to Ship: App Shortcuts Menu

[Rayan Kanso]

Contact emails

rah...@microsoft.com, jungke...@microsoft.com, cmum...@google.com, raya...@chromium.org

Explainer

Shortcuts Explainer

Spec

W3C spec: https://w3c.github.io/manifest/#shortcuts-member

Tag Review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/510

Summary

This feature provides PWA developers the ability to show a shortcuts menu of common tasks in their app. The menu can be invoked by right clicking the app icon in the quick launch bar after the PWA has been installed on the user’s desktop, or long pressing on the app on Android. This capability already exists for native apps on various platforms (Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows).

Link to “Intent to Prototype” blink-dev discussion

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/gK4XF2vbvf0

Is this feature supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

The feature will not be supported on WebView since web apps don't exist in that context. The feature will initially be enabled on Android, with support for Desktop platforms to follow.

Demo link

Test Website.

For Android, it needs to be installed via an unstable Chrome channel (canary/dev/beta).

For Windows, the kDesktopPWAsAppIconShortcutsMenu flag needs to be enabled.

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No Interoperability/Compatibility risk. When a web developer doesn’t provide a shortcuts member in the PWA’s WebAppManifest, current installation behavior is not affected by this feature.

Edge: In development/Public Support

Firefox: No signals

Safari: No signals

Web / Framework developers: Positive feedback from web developers

Ergonomics

Shortcuts will be used as part of the WebAppManifest. Use will not affect performance.

Activation

Use will be straightforward, it will only require developers to list their shortcuts in their manifest.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests? Link to test suite results from wpt.fyi.

No, app manifest features are not testable via wpt.

Entry on the feature dashboard

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5706099464339456

[Yoav Weiss]

Apologies for the delay in replying. It seems like this intent fell between the script's cracks...

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 6:01 PM Rayan Kanso <raya...@chromium.org> wrote:

Contact emails

rah...@microsoft.com, jungke...@microsoft.com, cmum...@google.com, raya...@chromium.org

Explainer

Shortcuts Explainer

Spec

W3C spec: https://w3c.github.io/manifest/#shortcuts-member

Tag Review: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/510

Summary

This feature provides PWA developers the ability to show a shortcuts menu of common tasks in their app. The menu can be invoked by right clicking the app icon in the quick launch bar after the PWA has been installed on the user’s desktop, or long pressing on the app on Android. This capability already exists for native apps on various platforms (Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows).

Link to “Intent to Prototype” blink-dev discussion

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/gK4XF2vbvf0

Is this feature supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

The feature will not be supported on WebView since web apps don't exist in that context. The feature will initially be enabled on Android, with support for Desktop platforms to follow.

Demo link

Test Website.

For Android, it needs to be installed via an unstable Chrome channel (canary/dev/beta).

For Windows, the kDesktopPWAsAppIconShortcutsMenu flag needs to be enabled.

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No Interoperability/Compatibility risk. When a web developer doesn’t provide a shortcuts member in the PWA’s WebAppManifest, current installation behavior is not affected by this feature.

Edge: In development/Public Support

Firefox: No signals

FWIW, https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/338 seems promising, although we should let it play out.

Have we considered the "super cookie" issues raised there? Are there mitigations in place against that?

Safari: No signals

Have we reached out?

 

Web / Framework developers: Positive feedback from web developers

Links?

 

Ergonomics

Shortcuts will be used as part of the WebAppManifest. Use will not affect performance.

Activation

Use will be straightforward, it will only require developers to list their shortcuts in their manifest.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests? Link to test suite results from wpt.fyi.

No, app manifest features are not testable via wpt.

Have we filed a WPT issue that will enable such testing?

 

Entry on the feature dashboard

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5706099464339456

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[Rayan Kanso]

Hi Yoav,

FWIW, https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/338 seems promising, although we should let it play out.
Have we considered the "super cookie" issues raised there? Are there mitigations in place against that?

 Yeah, the behaviour matches that of "start_url". There are no additional mitigations.

Have we reached out?

 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201964

Links? 

There have been quite a few positive interactions within discussions and updates. Here's an example of a recent chromium tweet regarding the issue.

Have we filed a WPT issue that will enable such testing?

Not one specifically for shortcuts. It should be covered by the ability to test app manifest features in general.

Thanks,

~Rayan

[Chris Harrelson]

LGTM1

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[Mike West]

LGTM2.

The risk raised on the Mozilla standards positions thread is not specific to these links; the same capability exists with `start_url`. If we change that, we should change this as well.

-mike

LGTM1

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[Yoav Weiss]

LGTM3

LGTM1

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[Ajay Rahatekar]

Hi All,

This feature previously shipped for Windows and Android https://chromestatus.com/feature/5706099464339456. Requesting approval to ship on Mac and Linux https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1248101 

-Ajay

[Yoav Weiss]

Can you send a new intent for that purpose? Thanks! :)

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