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The following members supplement the members of an application manifest. These members are classified as supplementary because they
are not applied to a web application at runtime (i.e., they are
purely advisory and don't affect how a user agent presents an
installed web application). All members are all optional and can
be added at the root of an application manifest, as shown in the
following example.
{
"name": "Donate App",
"categories": ["fundraising", "donations"],
"description": "This app helps you donate to worthy causes.",
"iarc_rating_id": "e84b072d-71b3-4d3e-86ae-31a8ce4e53b7",
"screenshots": [{
"src": "images/screenshot.png",
"sizes": "800x600",
"platform": "windows",
"label": "Lots of organizations to donate to"
}]
}
As the application manifest is JSON, the members of this
specification are of the types object,
array, and string as defined in The JSON Data Interchange Format, 2nd edition.
The categories member is an array of
strings that describes the application categories to which the
web application belongs. It is meant as a hint to catalogs or stores
listing web applications and it is expected that these will make a
best effort to find appropriate categories (or category) under which
to list the web application. Like search engines and meta keywords,
catalogs and stores are not required to honor this hint.
Manifest authors are encouraged to use lower-case.
List of known categories:
- beauty
- books
- books & reference
- business
- cars
- dating
- design
- developer
- developer tools
- development
- education
- entertainment
- events
- fashion
- finance
- fitness
- food
- fundraising
- games
- government
- graphics
- graphics & design
- health
- health & fitness
- kids
- lifestyle
- magazines
- medical
- multimedia
- multimedia design
- music
- navigation
- network
- networking
- news
- parenting
- personalization
- pets
- photo
- photo & video
- politics
- productivity
- reference
- security
- shopping
- social
- social networking
- sports
- transportation
- travel
- utilities
- video
- weather
The iarc_rating_id member is a string
that represents the International Age Rating Coalition
(IARC) certification code of the web application. It is intended
to be used to determine which ages the web application is appropriate
for.
Note
An IARC certificate can be obtained via participating storefronts,
intended to be used for distributing the web app. The
iarc_rating_id
More information on the IARC can be found at: How IARC
Works and How developers
can get their games and apps rated with IARC.
The screenshots member is an array of
screenshots objects, representing the web application in
common usage scenarios.
A screenshots object is a ImageResource object
with some additional members as defined below.
The label member is a string that
serves as the accessible name of that
screenshots object. For accessibility, authors are encouraged
to provide a label for each screenshot. This member can serve
as alternative text for the rendered screenshot.
{
"screenshots": [{
"src": "images/screenshot.png",
"sizes": "800x600",
"form_factor": "wide",
"label": "With Software, you can select a part of your screen and take a screenshot in seconds."
}]
}
Rob Dolin for spearheading a lot of this work, specially the
iarc_rating_id member, and Kenneth Rohde Christiansen for helping to
vet these ideas.
We'd also like to thank the following contributors: Christian Liebel, Julien Cayzac, Marcos Cáceres, Thomas Steiner, Xiaoqian Wu, and Yajing Tang.