define URL Scope (closes #114)

[marcoscaceres]

• First go at defining this based on extensive discussions over the last year.

[benfrancis]

Rather than simply not navigate, could a user agent load the URL in another browsing context, so as not to break hyperlinks?

[kenchris]

They could be opened in another window... or like the default user agent. Maybe that needs rephrasing

[marcoscaceres]

I'm hoping HTML spec will define that for us as part of the navigate algo. This whole section will go away once this get's fixed in HTML.

[benfrancis]

Does this leave the door open to also explore "capturing" navigations from non-application browsing contexts to a URL inside an application's navigation scope, so that they can be opened in a new or existing application context?

The use case for this would be that a web application has been installed from foo.com/bar with a scope of /bar and a browsing context tries to navigate to foo.com/bar/baz.html. The user agent may wish to navigate to this URL in an application context with the manifest applied. In other words, it would allow deep linking into an app.

[benfrancis]

Can an application context create another application context? E.g. via window.open() or <a target="_blank"> to a URL inside the navigation scope?

[marcoscaceres]

On Friday, December 19, 2014, Ben Francis notifications@github.com wrote:

Can an application context create another application context? E.g. via
window.open() or to a URL inside the navigation scope?

No, right now they can only create auxiliary browsing contexts (or whatever
open() creates). But you could link into the browser or another application
context.

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[marcoscaceres]

On Friday, December 19, 2014, Ben Francis notifications@github.com wrote:

Does this leave the door open to also explore "capturing" navigations from
non-application browsing contexts to a URL inside an application's
navigation scope, so that they can be opened in a new or existing
application context?

Yes. Should be doable.

The use case for this would be that a web application has been installed
from foo.com/bar with a scope of /bar and a browsing context tries to
navigate to foo.com/bar/baz.html. The user agent may wish to navigate to
this URL in an application context with the manifest applied. In other
words, it would allow deep linking into an app.

Let's explore this in the deep linking bug. I'm on my phone so don't have
the bug number.

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[kenchris]

2x the

[marcoscaceres]

fixed