Hi 2013/1/14 Jim Blandy <[email protected]>
> Obviously, there's no reason we couldn't implement the WebKit/chrome > protocol - it works for them, so it must also work as well for us. > > However, our protocol has some nice characteristics. It's easy to > extend and specialize for other kinds of tools and instrumentation, > like the profiler, or to provide access to B2G content processes. And > we have some improvements in the pipeline, like bulk data transfer, > that should make it better for use on low-memory devices like phones. > > My sense here is that the interoperation story will never be good > enough that it will actually be enough of an advantage to pay for the > loss of the qualities I describe above. > I'm sorry but I completely disagree on this point. Technical awesomeness is typically a developer concern that just have to deal with a single environnement. As a web developer I must develop cross browser compatible WebApps, my clients will require it (actually they already did). Because there is no interoperable debug protocol we (web developers) have to investe in several different tools (many are not free). It increase the time we spend debugging apps, a time that have to be payed and our clients are not okay to paye it... this lead us to strategic choice such as avoiding testing some platforms (dont' be surprise if I say it's the Mozilla and Opera products that are dismissed). An imperfect but interoperable protocole is a better solution for web developers than an awesome platform specific protocol. It's actually the whole story of the Web: An imperfect solution that work for everybody. If the "web is the platform" the tools to develop on such a platform need to be interoperable otherwise it is not the platform and B2G is just "another platform" that use web technologies. As for your concern about the limit of interoperability, I doubt people from other companies want some seedy protocole, they also want awesome tools. I can't imagine it's not possible to cooperate on such topic, the web proves it otherwise. Best -- Jeremie ............................. Web : http://jeremie.patonnier.net Twitter : @JeremiePat <http://twitter.com/JeremiePat> _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
