Re: [manifest] How does updating work? (#384)

> Right now, just getting some icons showing up on a homescreen is sufficient - even if they can't be updated. 

This is short sighted. We should not be building these footguns into the spec, especially when there are already tried and tested solutions from years of experience building these things.

The spec says "By using the manifest URL, a user agent MAY periodically check if the contents of a manifest has been modified" - it doesn't say anything about replacing the manifest with any other manifest linked from any other page within the same URL scope (by default the whole web) which the user happens to navigate to.

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