Re: [w3c/manifest] Allowing only site-triggered install prompt (#627)

I have seen the installation offer in mobile Firefox yesterday. The browser itself shows the install option over the whole screen, right after you visit the website. After you dismiss it, it adds the install button next to the site URL (in the browser UI, making the URL field smaller). And the site author can not do anything about it :(

Please, remove these automatic "self-deduced by UA" offeres from the specification completely. The "installation" should be initiated only by the visitor = site author (I think about the author and the visitor to be on the same side, since the goal of the author is to satisfy the visitor).

I don't think the window.alert() is some legacy monster, which ruins the web experience of the whole humanity. Just because you let authors interrupt visitors, does not mean they will interrupt them all the time. You underestimate the "law of free market" - visitors avoid interrupting websites. So in the long run, the website is either visited a lot and not interrupting, or interrupting, but not visited by anybody.

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