Re: [w3c/manifest] Abstracting selecting an icon. (#710)

> @marcoscaceres Why is WebIDL not appropriate for defining a document format?

IDL defines type coercion rules, so when one does:

```
{
   orientation: "bananas",
}
```

That should "throw" a TypeError... but throwing doesn't mean anything in our format.

Similarly, per IDL:

```JS
{
   name: ["this gets coerced to a string"],
}
```

And so on... 

@jakearchibald wrote:
 > Anyone know the process for this? I imagine it's different to proposing a new feature.

We can just quickly spin something up at the WICG. All we need is an index.html file and a collaborative spirit :) When we are happy, we move it back into Web Platform and just explain that we sprouted it from this spec.  


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