Re: [w3c/manifest] Use WebIDL to describe the manifest data structure (#611)

@tobie wrote:
> JSON Schema is forward compatible in that regard.

As an implementer, I want to avoid implementing JSON Schema from scratch if I can avoid it. Unless we agree that that is what we are going to do for a substantial number of specs.   

@annevk wrote: 
> I guess if I were to work on this I'd copy the IDL dictionary work and simplify it to fit the needs of what we need for all these JSON resources.

That might be reasonable. We have a fairly good idea what kinds of behaviors the processor should exhibit. From IDL dictionaries, I think we are only missing trimming and normalization behavior. 

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