one app installing a foreign app - did that ever show up on a security review?

https://aka.ms/webinstall

*Specification*
https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1175

*Design docs*

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12nSXJLm8mW0gWZ_yjlXfrV8r9gwJliVt4WVa-209-KA/edit?tab=t.0

*Summary*
Allows a website to install a web app. The API provides 3 signatures, with
0, 1, and 2 parameters, respectively. When invoked, the website installs
either itself, or another site from a different origin, as a web app
(depending on the provided parameters). All 3 signatures will be
experimented with in parallel.
*Terminology - A site installing itself is a "current document install". *A
site installing another site is a "background document install".*

Peace ..tom jones

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