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

Hi Marcos,

As I wrote in #835, I'll leave the discussion of why folks are opposed to this API over there, and assume they Mozilla and Apple will not be implementing this.

> Regardless, we wholeheartedly appreciate and value Microsoft’s input - as well as the input of any WebAppsWG member, which includes Samsung, and the developer community at large. However, we do have a (W3C) Process to follow and features that are not going to be interoperable due to lack of implementation must be removed from the spec.

Are you able to link me to the text of that process? Forgive my ignorance, I've never been very clear on what the exact rules are and it would be good to be speaking on the same page.

I'd like to clarify what Microsoft's role is now that they are using Chromium code. It seems unfortunate to me if two of the main browsers agree to implement something that we can't spec it on the grounds that those two browsers happen to share code.

Regardless, if this is taken out of the spec, I think it's unlikely it'll be removed from Chromium. There is too much developer demand for this feature, and we think we've found a good balance between developer demand and being respectful of the user. We would likely take the text of this API and move it into its own spec (maybe in WICG).

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