Re: [manifest] Are "hosted apps" in scope? (#340)

I think the problem is not supporting hosted apps, but allowing people to somehow create a manifest for an app that is not hosted on the apps' origin domain.

This could allow people to package up (for their store or existing stores, like create an APK) hosted apps.

For Crosswalk, we allow people to package local web apps into APKs using the manifest and upload them to the Play Store. We have gotten requests that some vendors would actually like to package their own hosted apps (so they can update the content on demand and still make it available offline with service worker). I have suggested that they could just add a manifest to the web page itself, but apparently that is a problem for some a @PaulKinlan pointed out.

As far as I understand from the MWC presentation, Microsoft will also use the manifest for web apps in the Windows 10 store. It would be sad if that had to be limited to packaged apps (local content) and not allow hosted apps.

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