Re: [manifest] Add meta tags equivs. for features were possible (#350)

I do agree having a sane fallback from manifest to meta elements makes sense and it is something we use on Chrome.  Some of my issue with this is that the meta tags describe things related to the page and the manifest describes things relate to an installable experience and it is a subtle difference.

re: Google tried "application-url" - no we never :) well, it is actually really really unclear about what was happening at that time.  For all intents and purpose we never did if anyone cares about usage on the web.

One thing that the Microsoft sorted with their original meta tags was "[what to launch](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/gg491732%28v=vs.85%29.aspx#msapplication-starturl)" which is one of the biggest pieces that was missing from most usages of meta tags that I would like to see defined.

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