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

@kenchris:
> I don't get why they would need any API for installing.

The Windows Store app presumably uses an internal API in Windows to install the web app in the OS, I'm not suggesting that they need a web API for that if the Store app is not a web app.

> People can just upload the app incl a manifest.json to the store, or like Crosswalk does, run a command line tool which takes the sources + manifest.json, wraps it in a package which then can be uploaded to the Google Play store.

That is not how the spec says a manifest should be obtained [1], a web app has a manifest URL on the web which is used for retrieving the manifest. If you want to use the same manifest format for packaged apps then that's up to you, but that isn't a web app and as I understand it is outside the scope of this spec.

However, Microsoft's use case does sound like a web app using a web app manifest hosted at a manifest URL. @alxlu Can you confirm that the manifest would be hosted by the web apps themselves, not packaged inside an app package uploaded to the store?

1. http://w3c.github.io/manifest/#obtaining

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