Re: [w3c/manifest] App shortcuts / actions (#582)

Hi, (oops this is a week old, sorry)

I agree we want that feature, but I'm not sure how forcing developers to split their shortcuts into separate manifests helps. It just makes life harder for developers.

I think the thing you're getting at is that if the shortcuts are links to other manifests, then if the user pins one of these shortcuts, the implementation would store a link to that manifest. I don't think that's really what you'd do --- you'd extract the metadata from the manifest, convert it to the host system's format, and store it in that format. Therefore you don't really gain anything by having the shortcuts be separate manifest files.

(Also, we generally don't want to trade developer convenience for user agent implementor's convenience.)

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