I'm afraid I still don't understand what you're getting at.

> What we're after here is _connecting_ the high and low levels. Creating a fully descriptive map that has texture, color, and major features marked and named.

A low level AppCache API doesn't exist though. So there is no connection to happen, right? I realize people wish AppCache had been designed differently. I wish Touch Events had been designed differently. The web is littered with mistakes, I don't think a manifesto is going to prevent them from occurring.

What is the essence of this manifesto? I read it as favoring low level APIs. Ideally we could have both but there aren't the resources to make that practical.