Re: [w3c/manifest] beforeinstallprompt : Prompting user makes it to hard to discern whether the user truly wanted to "install" a web app (#835)

> https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html also seems like a feature that reduces the signal of whether the user really wanted to install an app, vs just wanted to get rid of a prompt. @rniwa, could you elaborate on any differences you see between that "please install me" prompt and the one controlled by the `beforeinstallprompt` event, which make the first acceptable to WebKit and the second not?

Those manners don't ask or promot users to install any app; it simply indicates that there is an app available if they wanted to use, and links to the relevant content in App Store where the user then has an option of installing it. There is no mechanism to directly install an app straight out of an app banners.

In the case of a web app, users are already using the app so there is no reason to remind them of its existence (since they're already using it), and the way people promote that there are other apps available on the web is to have hyperlinks to them.

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