Re: [w3c/manifest] Add optional `author` member (#675)

> Are app stores that support publishing PWA (like Samsung Galaxy Store and Microsoft Store) user agents too or not?

Not in the current specification. No. 

> Also I believe the situation with browsers may change in the near future: browsers could expose more info from the manifest to the user in PWA install prompt like description, screenshots, categories, iarc_rating_id, etc. Including publisher. Not only app icon and URL.

You are not wrong. But we add things to the standard "reactively": that is, a case would be made (as in the above case for `author`) and we would need commitment from 2 implementers to add it to the spec (i.e., we don't add things to the spec in the hope that user agents will make use of things). We want to avoid situations where new manifest members don't get used, and we are forced to remove things from the spec due to lack of implementer commitment. 

That is the current situation with `author`.

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