Re: [w3c/manifest] BREAKING CHANGE: remove beforeinstallprompt event (#836)

> Even if the actual code implementing the feature is shared inside Blink from Chromium, it still seems like Edge is making conscious choices about the web platform it chooses to ship, and not simply replicating what Chromium is doing. It seems a little harsh to say that they aren't independent when they do actually exhibit control and opinion down to the web platform layer.

The part where you say "actual code implementing the feature is shared inside Blink from Chromium" is the thing that says Edge does not constitute an independent implementation.

Consider this. Almost every port of WebKit ships a different set of features. In fact, Apple's macOS port and iOS port of WebKit ship a different set of features, and some features are even implemented in completely different code (e.g. anything related to touch or pointer events). Yet, I don't think we would consider each port of WebKit as an independent implementation of whatever Web feature.

Similarly, there are GTK+, WPE, WinCairo ports that are maintained by other companies, and each port ships their own browser (e.g. to PlayStation). All of these ports don't even share the same networking or graphics layer, and they also have a completely different backend for things like WebGL and storage. Yet we still wouldn't consider those ports as independent implementations either.

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