Re: [w3c/manifest] Manifest format should support some way of including a splash screen (#9)

> Wait, are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the browser caching and caching bitmaps at add-to-homescreen time, then displaying them at next launch while the browser boots up.

Yes, but that still presupposes that the browser engine will boot up quickly. The point of the splash screen was to mitigate the wait time between the browser booting up and first paint - which for some engines was more than 1.5 seconds. On engines that do take ages, is currently handled through the combination of icons + background_color.  

If an engine can cold start and first paint fast enough, it doesn't need to show anything the icon + background color - and can hence show it's own HTML splashscreen.  

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