Re: [w3c/manifest] Control over webapp installation & launch (#705)

I think there's much less value in being able to programmatically trigger "open with" than "install".

The reason we allow programmatically triggering install is to give sites an opportunity to ask the user to commit to having the app around on their home screen, something that the user might not naturally discover or think about on their own.

Once an app is installed, the easiest way to open it is from the home screen. If the user is in the website, it's because they got there from a normal web navigation. It's helpful to have UI to switch into "app mode" but I don't think we want sites to be able to constantly ask the user to switch into app mode. (And the rejection model is weirder than BeforeInstallPrompt; if the user rejects switching into app mode once, does that mean they don't want to be asked again?)

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