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Giving this capability to arbitrary web apps is definitely a bad idea, but conceivably it could be made available to installed PWAs in the same way things like the Window Controls API are: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window_Cont...

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PWAs can contain dynamic ads elements, which will try to abuse that. If it was normal for desktop apps to run some remote view+script sandboxes, this problem would extend there too. On one hand, PWAs are apps, on the other, they enable the spirit of downloadable web content much more easily.

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