Re: [manifest] Allow multiple application contexts per app (#294)

> This could also help to mitigate a kind of masquerading attack: as opening an app with window.open can create a clear overlay with browser chrome. 

Can you explain this further? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

> I think parts of Jonas' proposal is very OS specific

Sorry, perhaps I should have explicitly pointed out that the quote was taken from a proposal specific to Firefox OS, not for this W3C specification, it was intentionally OS-specific. It was the general algorithm I was citing, not the specific UI details.

> The way that scope is currently specified allows implementation to freely adapt the concept to their own needs and underlying OS conventions. I think we should let implementers play around with the concept of scope and see what emerges. If we see that there is something to standardize, then we can get agreement and do that.

That's fair enough. An Android/iOS/Windows/OS X etc. implementation may not want to implement the capturing scope part. Waiting to see what implementers do sounds reasonable as deep linking into apps is a new area. There are certainly lots of proprietary non-web approaches to deep linking being explored at the moment, maybe one of those will supersede the web instead (I hope not).

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