Re: [manifest] Integration with service workers (#161)

> My working assumption is that installing just reopens the browser but, possibly, in a different display mode. Can you help me understand the issue a bit?

I don't think this is quite how it would work on all operating systems. There's no guarantee that things like cookies, IndexedDB databases and Service Worker registrations would survive the transition from the browsing context in the browser app to the application context in the OS. The OS might even use a different rendering engine to the browser the app was installed from.

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