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

@marcoscaceres I see where the specification is at the moment. I think there are two key points, where I see problems.
* User agent should not be the "robot", who decides things for us. Decisions should be made either by user, or by a program developer. I can see of browsers becoming 20% larger (in terms of MB), because they will embed some AI libraries, to be able to claim, that their decissions are better than the decissions of other browsers. If you want to guarantee some level of "security", make strict rules (e.g. HTTPS + manifest + something else), that will work for all browsers. Don't make it up to browsers to decide. Web authors would have to test their product with many borwsers to make sure it works everywhere. We are getting the web back to 90s. 

* "INSTALL APP" buttons all around a web is nonsense. The area of the webpage is "expensive", and when some button is not clicked, it is replaced by something else. Such buttons can be everywhere only for a couple of months, until authors see how effective they are, and most of them would remove these buttons. Just like we have Social media buttons now.

Please, think about it. Don't make browsers take decissions without specific rules. It may add a lot of headache to both web authors and visitors.

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