Re: [w3c/manifest] Define "web application" (Issue #1097)

Agree on avoiding the term "web application" and always "installable web application" (i.e. "web application" is any website that considers itself an app, not a technical term we need in specs; "installable web application" is this formal concept, which can apply to any site, but that's OK, we're just defining what it means to be installable, to have an app ID, etc.)

I think there are two distinct concepts, "installable" and "installed".

An **installable web application** is something that exists on the server side: it's a website, with a manifest (or just an implied default manifest), a scope and an id. Installable web applications can be **installed** by a user agent.

An **installed web application** is a concept on the client side. It's the object that's created within the user agent when an installable web application is installed.

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