Re: [w3c/manifest] More precise control over app window features (#856)

@sunggook That's a useful taxonomy, thanks for sharing.

Yes, in general I am advocating that we move away from 1, recommend 2 wherever possible and 3 as a fallback.

2 offers the least direct control over how things will behave on each specific platform, but that's _exactly the point_. Web developers are not supposed to be deciding "on Windows, it should do this, on macOS it should do that." The entire point of the Web is to be a fairly tight abstraction over the host OS. The browser manufacturer should decide what to do on Windows or on macOS; the web developer should supply enough generic metadata that the browser can do something reasonable.

We aren't aiming to provide developers with 100% control over the application, just as we don't give developers 100% capabilities they would expect from a native binary. We provide a reasonable trade-off between control and portability.

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