Manifests: highlight if short_name exceeds expected character count about lighthouse HOT 11 CLOSED

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Yep!

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@mounirlamouri might know!

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I do not think we do any kind of significant trimming in Chrome (there is a 4Ki limit but not what you are asking I think :)).

@addyosmani where do you see the trim? Is it in the home screen? or the Chrome UI?

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I think it's more the visual wrangling you do to make sure it's not truncated on the home screen.

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@mounirlamouri I see it in the homescreen. I'll see if I can put together a repro.

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This is a smart check to have, yeah.

I am pretty sure i've seen quite different results on a Nexus 6 vs a smaller phone for this number.

@addyosmani have you gotten a sense of what string lengths work?

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From my homescreen.. here's what is and isn't truncated, along with string lengths:

HackerWeb # 9
Play Store  # 9
Pocket Cas… # 10
Chrome Ca… # 9
Popcorn Ti… # 10
What’s my…  # 9
Flipkart Lite   # 13
Guitar Tuner # 12
Trained To… # 10
Inbox Attack # 12
Get Kana! # 9
BusRouter… #9

By now, you can tell that Roboto doesn't use the same width for all letters. :)
An app called iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (with 17 i's) will fit, but wwwwwwww (with 8 w's) won't (and will get truncated to 7 plus an ellipsis).

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If we know widths and fonts we can guess pretty well with a measureText. We could ask the page to do it in JS as a gather once we have a manifest. It's messy.

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Let me follow up with the android UI team... and see if I can get a real answer on this.

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fixed by #145

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