Re: [manifest] Ability to define platform-specific icon style (#361)

@marcoscaceres I disagree about the "a little bit". Even examples you've shown differ enough that a wrong icon would give impression of app creator not having a good taste or not caring about the platform.

This *is* very important for the "native" feel, rather than giving a second-rate almost-but-not-quite feel. Here's a screenshot from Android. Can you guess which FT icon belongs to the native app?

<img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/72159/7329469/b15c2b5a-ead7-11e4-952a-465e7b83f57a.png" width="320">

And FT's icon is already as simple as it gets. 

Now imagine a complex icon that's a colorful 3D model (KitKat or OS X 10.9 style) used among flat white silhouettes on Windows "Metro". Yuck!

So I'm quite serious with media-query-like mechanism that can target *exact* styles. That's the reality. We have designers who will follow style set by iOS, Material design, Metro, and whetever comes next. 

It would be silly to be vague about it, because then both browsers and authors would have to figure out how to map spec-euphemisms to the specific OS they target.

Specced media query is always better than browser sniffing.


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