Re: [w3c/permissions] PWA install permission (#227)

Would such an API have any functional difference to BeforeInstallPrompt? It would have essentially the same UX, and be gated behind engagement or something similar.

The objections raised by opponents of BeforeInstallPrompt (from Mozilla and Apple) on w3c/manifest#835 were not about the nature of the interface per se, but the user experience. From their perspective, I don't see how this changes the equation. And those are the people you have to convince to create a standard.

From Chromium's perspective (i.e. mine), I don't think we'd object to this proposal from a user experience perspective, but since it's functionally equivalent to an API we already offer that's in widespread use, I don't think there would be a lot of appetite to change over to an incompatible but equivalent API, and ask all the developers to rewrite their install prompting code.

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