Re: [w3c/manifest] Additional property to define a webapp to be single instance (single-tab) (#479)

Native applications usually use file lock or named pipe to achieve this purpuse, so I think the web need similar mechanism. In one of my project, we use `storage`  event of `localStorage` to implement a poor man's lock mechanism.

Some previous discussion:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015JulSep/0151.html
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2009Sep/0267.html
https://gist.github.com/inexorabletash/a53c6add9fbc8b9b1191

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