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

Catching up…

> But even so, I'm not aware of Edge removing a significant number of (or really any) web-facing features that ship in Chrome.

Nor am I.

I am in this week, but many of my colleagues are out through the 6th (or so) of January. I think we (Microsoft) need to have a chat about our overall position on BIP. I personally think it’s (potentially) useful, but I’m not sure it needs to be explicitly part of this spec. That said, I don’t have an objection to including a note in the spec about UAs being free to implement some form of prompting event, perhaps even with a specific callout of the existing (in this event "non-standard") beforeinstallprompt event name. I don’t know that any of us can claim to know how useful this particular event will be going into the future. Perhaps it will eventually claim multiple interoperable implementations and become a standard (like XHR did), but maybe not as part of this spec.

That said, this is purely my personal opinion. Let me see if there are conflicting views from others in Microsoft. I’ll circle the wagons and respond in the new year.

Of course none of this changes the reality that we are not an independent rendering engine anymore… but that’s another conversation for another day (and probably needs to happen in another venue).

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