Re: [manifest] Integration with service workers (#161)

@marcoscaceres I'd like to propose re-opening this, I didn't realise it had been closed. I think it's fine if some implementations don't get around to implementing this property for a while, nobody supports the scope property yet either.

> that would mean that the service worker might not have been installed when the app has been added to the launcher and thus might not work offline until launched second time.

I think this is the key point. The service_worker property would not be the only way for a given Service Worker to be registered, it would just be a way of ensuring that it gets registered the moment a user installs an app. Otherwise, the app will only work offline the second time the app is launched.

I think being able to use a Service Worker as an installation script for an app by hooking into the worker's "install" event could be hugely powerful. Not just for downloading resources of the app into a cache for offline use, but for all kinds of purposes.

@slightlyoff, what do you think?

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