Hi all,

I have developed an app for guiding people in their hikes with maps, tracks and 
GPS position, Hiking Guide (https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/hiking-guide). 
I developed it so that it could use OpenStreetMap and Google Maps.

But Google Maps library has to be included as an external JS file, and the CSP 
does not allow this. I tried to download the JS and include it with the app, 
but this is not recommended since they update it quite often. And they 
explicitly try to disallow so: in the first JS file 
(http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3&sensor=false), other JS files are 
downloaded by script injection into the HTML document and it does this many 
times, so it is not easy to download the whole library... And if I just include 
the first, the CSP blocks the injection...

The only solution for the app not to be rejected has been to remove all Google 
Maps functionality completely...

Not having a way to use Google Maps in Firefox OS is a great disadvantage for 
this platform. A web app can be used in other platforms with Google Maps, but 
not in Firefox OS (I have tried mine on Android with Firefox with no problems). 
This can make Firefox OS unattractive for developers or users... Besides, 
porting a working web app to Firefox OS is not as simple as including a 
manifest file or zipping it for a packaged app, as it is claimed...

So my question is: couldn't Firefox OS include a way to have some 'trusted' 
sources, from which external JS files could be included and where eval()-like 
functions could be called? That way, this and other libraries could be used.

Thanks in advance,

  Igor Leturia
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