Re: [w3c/manifest] Add a unique identifier for a PWA (#586)

In the alternative case, If a manifest is updated , the document that's within the previous navigation scope will update their manifest link to the latest one or the document url will redirect to the new document url, but still keep the stable ID if the apps' origin is not changed.

I think either options, the user agents always have ways to update. The difference is with your proposal of how to do the redirect,
the ID will be changed and we could hit a race condition for user agents, that loading the latest page finds the manfiest_v2,
before existing installed app v1 is updated to v2, and result in duplicated apps being installed. Or we need to follow what @ralphch0  said to go through all existing apps to update their manifests whenever you browse to a link.

This also gets trickier with user agents that support syncing apps across devices. 

-- 
You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/586#issuecomment-774332087