Since the addon model on Firefox OS is not implemented now, I still use the old term "apps" in previous mail. I also think it makes much more sense to make this API to be only available for addons. In addition, do we have a way to let an API only be used by addons now?
Thanks. On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:43 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:49 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller > <dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > On 24/07/15 11:38, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> I think we should allow addons to implement something like this. But I > >> don't think it's something that we should let apps do. > >> > >> / Jonas > > > > So Dropbox, Cozy Cloud, etc. should be add-ons instead of apps? > > Yes. For FirefoxOS we're working on getting rid of installation for > "apps". Instead apps will be treated just like other web content that > you simply browse to. > > In this model it doesn't make as much sense for apps to be changing > the behavior of the user agent. Why would navigating to Dropbox and > then navigating away from it suddenly change the behavior of your OS? > How do you revert it? > > Instead we're going to use addons as the way that you customize your > device. > > / Jonas > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
