Re: [w3c/manifest] Richer splash screen backgrounds (#589)

I'd like to leave this open and can assign me if you like.

At Google we are constantly talking about richer splash screens because we clearly can do better than a tiny icon and text on a white background. We're now focusing our efforts on this.

The avenue we are pursuing is to have a full HTML page for the splash screen, but the UA takes a screen grab of the page at install time (or perhaps first load). So subsequent loads can show the screengrab very quickly as the browser engine is still loading. Obviously there are a lot of issues with this (updates to the splash page, changing screen orientation or size, transitioning into the start page, etc) but we think this is workable and plan to experiment with it in Chrome.

We'd rather not have to spin up an SVG renderer alongside the HTML renderer. Performance reasons, plus it would be a barrier to entry for devs to have to supply separate SVG along with their HTML page.

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