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Expand Up @@ -172,9 +172,11 @@ The Web Publication Manifest appears to be very similar to the Web Application M

1. WP use cases are orthogonal to those of WAM. Nothing is stopping a creator of a web publication from also using a web application manifest, if the publication author desires for the publication to be installable, etc.

2. There were concerns about the extensibility of web application manifest, especially with regards to the processing of new members.
2. A primary objective of web publications is to make publication metadata available for SEO. We feel that schema.org metadata is the best way to do this, but this implies using JSON-LD, which is not compatible with the syntax of WAM.

3. Web publications are fundamentally different from web apps, as the goal is for the user agent to provide the user interface.
3. There were concerns about the extensibility of web application manifest, especially with regards to the processing of new members.

4. Web publications are fundamentally different from web apps, as the goal is for the user agent to provide the user interface.


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