Hi all,
Another item on the "Engineering whislist" that I think is crucial for
b2g success is to add some kind of add-on support. Firefox's popularity
is in no small part due to its add-on model that allows both
customization and extensibility.
How can we translate this model to make b2g even better?
First, we need to use web applications as add-ons and not reuse the xpi
format from firefox, since it's designed for other cases.
Secondly, there's the big question of which kind of functionality we
want to offer to add-ons. We very likely need at least themeing support
(maybe even support styles from userstyles.org) and page scripts (like
scriptish/greasemonkey). If we want to allow resources filters (for ad
blockers for instance) this may be harder, but also really interesting!
Add-ons being applications, their api access will be similar to
applications - no chrome privileges, etc.
Thoughts?
Fabrice
--
Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
_______________________________________________
dev-b2g mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
