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

> Because UI is not spec-ed, it's a moving thing, a browser can change its UI as much as it wants, it can chose to make it visible (an icon in the address bar) or very hidden (a non-obvious label at the end of the three dot menu), but as a developer, I shouldn't be concerned about the browser UI, I don't want to educate my users to access a web plateform feature on a specific browser. It should be the browser's charge.

Right, and I'm saying that leave it to the browser to provide such an UI.

> `beforeinstallprompt` event offers a consistent way to manually trigger a web [platform] feature despite browser UI & its potential changes over time and that's all I need.

Since this is a browser UI issue as you've just stated, I see no reason why there needs to be a Web API which *triggers* it. FWIW, there might be nothing to be triggered because some browsers would rely fully on users to trigger it like Safari on iOS currently does.

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