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

Guys, I am horrified by your calling installation as "spamming". I can't see what would be more spamming in window.install() than in window.alert() ? Both would "pause" the webpage and require the user to interract, to be able to return back to the site.

Why we are not limiting the alert() in any way (e.g. the website would have to get a "permission" to alert)? Why we don't see 90% of webpages alerting messages right after you visit them? I think your idea of the effect of allowing "simple install" is absolutely misleading. What makes you think any website would want to fire install() at the user right after he visits it? That would be like a shop owner shouting at you right after you enter a shop. You would probably never go back to that shop. What you are suggesting is forbidding the shop owner to say a singe word during the first 10 minutes in the shop. So even if both the customer and the shop owner want to say something to each other, you are forbidding them to do so.

I am really shocked that you can not see it and I have to explain it to you in these terms.

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