Re: [w3c/manifest] Support a way to update explicitly (#446)

I think we should limit the declarative features of the manifest as much as possible, particularly ones where we can do better (for developers) by making them programmatic. I believe there is, nevertheless, and as @RobDolinMS suggests, the opportunity for a good mix of collaboration between the browser and the web application: where the browser can automatically check for an update (as service workers do every 24 hours) - or the developer can request an update, through an API.

As I argued in https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/446#issuecomment-206112421, the end user needs to be in control of the update process (similarly to how they go through the installation process), because we are asking the user agent to make a pretty scary change at the OS level (the application icon, name, start_url, and possibly other things can change).

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