Parsing background_color from Web Application Manifest

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 46)
Intent stage: None

Summary

The background_color attribute in the JSON Web Application Manifest allows web developers to provide a hint to Chrome indicating the background color of their web application. This color is used as the background of the application while its resources are fetched.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://w3c.github.io/manifest/#background_color-member
Firefox: No signal
Safari: No signal
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=522042

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/using-web-app-manifest-to-set-solid-color-loading-screen https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest

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