Re: [manifest] Define identity of a web app. (#272)

> Aren't we overreaching a bit when trying to define app identity for the whole web?

I actually think this would be hugely valuable to define here. Making a URL the identity of an app would be a big step in solving the current fragmentation of "web apps" on various platforms. Rather than app stores defining the identity of apps separately for each app store and OS, the web itself would be the single source of truth, app stores would just catalogue the apps available on the web, all OSs could share the same collection of apps, search engines could crawl the web to find web apps, and users could easily migrate their collection of apps from one OS to another.

It's a shame that standardising the manifest URL as the identifier of a web app seems to be a point of contention as that would seem like an obvious answer to me.

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