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

I am frustrated I missed this.  I don't believe that having the manifest locked to the same origin makes any sense at all especially in the scenario of managing static content with CDN's.  It's not the origin that makes it mean that you can't say foo can't make the app for bar, it's the run time check to make sure that the start URL only ever launches from the origin that the manifest was associated from.

> Manifest URL also makes a convenient identifier for search engines which can crawl the web for apps via link relations and know that a linked manifest is an authoritative description of an app.

Honestly, at this point in time,this assumption means 0 to us.  If the developer on a page includes a link to a manifest that they don't own, that is their fault as long as the resolution of start_path is on their origin of the document.


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