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

> I just don't think that the manifest spec in its current form (with all the requirements and restrictions documented in this repo) is fit for defining identity.

If defining the identity of a web app is outside the scope of the "Manifest for web applications" specification, then where should it be defined instead? It seems like an important thing to standardise and I'd like to have that conversation.

> Please consider the requirement for multiple apps per manifest

I don't think anyone is suggesting multiple apps per manifest, just multiple manifests per manifest URL. I'm not sure where this requirement came from as I've never seen it in practice, but if genericmanifest.com really wanted to host generic manifests, couldn't they just append "?app=<appid>" or "#appid" to the URL for each app? Surely a manifest for a different app is a different resource and therefore by definition should have a different URL?

> or the fact that start_url is not a mandatory member of the manifest

I think we've established that start_url would make a bad identifier, on the basis that it can change.

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