On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 4:25:23 AM UTC+1, Anders Rundgren wrote: > If I were Mozilla I would call off the quest for the "Holy Grail" (the open > portable web), because: > 1) It probably doesn't exist > 2) It is incompatible with the non-FFOS world which have no problems > whatsoever writing "Apps" > 3) Will never be able to support a large class of intrinsically proprietary > systems like payments not to mention security hardware > 4) It eventually makes Mozilla weaker > > A better solution is looking into Chrome Native Messaging which still enables > the world creating fully platforms-independent web applications which is what > really counts. > > Chrome Native Messaging should also have a fairly small footprint both as an > implementation as well as a true web standard. > > Cheers, > Anders Rundgren > http://blog.chromium.org/2013/10/connecting-chrome-apps-and-extensions.html
Suggested enhancements to Chrome Native Messaging: http://webpki.org/papers/web2native-bridge.pdf Note: This take on the matter is a pure API not depending on additional extensions _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
