On 6/17/15 7:40 PM, tucker.mckni...@gmail.com wrote:
Sheeri, that is why I asked about seeing a timeline for when other providers will be allowed, like they are with search providers and the social API. With the social API, that was the plan from the beginning, and Mozilla was very transparent about that. That is not at all the case here.
Given that the preferences for this feature were implemented with a trademark in the name — browser.pocket.* — I suspect that the claim that this was intended to be just the first of an open set of providers just isn't true. (Even in Firefox 0.8, the Google icon and search parameters were distributed in a "searchplugins" folder, and presumably when the Social API was launched there wasn't a preference with "facebook" in the name.) This certainly looks like it's intended to be an exclusive partnership — and, in fact, no one has stated authoritatively that that's not the case.
So from the looks of it, Sheeri, no, this is not at all what Mozilla has done historically. If someone from Mozilla cares to set the record straight, with concrete plans for how this feature will be opened up, that'd be helpful, but Mike's saying "I don't believe that to be the long term plan" is not such a statement.
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