https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=886905

You are more than welcome to fix the pages so they work for Firefox OS.  :)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Frederik Braun <[email protected]> wrote:

> There are many other useful about pages that do not currently work on
> Firefox OS (config, memory, crashes, webrtc, mozilla, robots, ... :)).
>
> Do we want them to work in the future? Either by just allowing them from
> the browser app or redirecting to a customized version from the system app.
>
>
> On 11.11.2015 07:05, Fabrice Desré wrote:
> > The only about: page we display is about:neterror. On b2g we redirect it
> > to a page served from the system app (apps/system/net_error.html). The
> > nice thing doing that is that we have control of its look & feel (even
> > if we started by mostly copying the one from Fennec), and we can
> > localize it like the rest of gaia. That means th
> at we don't have to ship
> > a localized gecko, which is a win. We still have some unlocalized
> > strings in gecko that we should provide from the system app though, like
> > the label on <input type=file> buttons.
> >
> >       Fabrice
> >
> > On 11/10/2015 07:50 PM, Tim Guan-tin Chien wrote:
> >> Understood, thanks for the response Francisco, Fernando and Ben!
> >>
> >> Maybe the bigger issue here is whether or not we should somehow allow
> >> about: URLs to be loaded into FxOS? I don't think it make sense for
> >> re-do every about: page UI in the FxOS org since Platform team already
> >> did it once?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Francisco Jordano <
> [email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi there,
> >>
> >>     as Ben mentioned there is a new effort from the devtools team to
> >>     provide tools for debugging the new features that platform is
> building.
> >>
> >>     IIRC, Eddy is working on the new tools under about:debugging that
> >>     will be the umbrella for debugging addons, workers, serviceworkers,
> etc.
> >>
> >>     We still don't have it available for FxOS, so IMO, we should keep
> >>     the current implementation in Settings that provide basic
> >>     functionality for developers, and remove that implementation as soon
> >>     about:debugging is available for Firefox OS.
> >>
> >>     Cheers,
> >>     F.
> >>
> >>     On 10 November 2015 at 14:04, Ben Kelly <[email protected]
> >>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Tim Guan-tin Chien
> >>         <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>             Somehow it was decided about:serviceworker in Settings app
> >>             should be engineered with a chrome/content event to System
> >>             app and an IAC channel to Settings app:
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/3180bbe2f2e94809c1fcef0e92a01da99cdfb530/apps/system/js/about_service_workers_proxy.js#L21-L29
> >>
> >>             When, per previous threads, we should just implement a
> >>             ServiceWorkerManager API accessible from Settings app.
> >>
> >>
> >>         Is it really necessary to have this panel in settings app vs
> >>         providing the information via devtools?
> >>
> >>         The main issue with the previous settings app service worker
> >>         panel is that it could run the service worker script in the
> >>         wrong content process.  For example, when you click the update
> >>         button it would launch the service worker script for appId X in
> >>         the settings content process with appId Y.  This would then
> >>         cause security checks to fail and kill the content process.
> >>
> >>         If necessary we can surface a small interface to settings app,
> >>         but I would strongly suggest that it be limited in scope.  We
> >>         should not expose the full nsIServiceWorkerManager interface.
> >>         It would also need to include IPC to the parent process to work
> >>         properly.
> >>
> >>
> >>             Unless there are counter-arguments unknown to me, I would
> >>             like to organize work and do this conversion.
> >>
> >>
> >>         We are planning to revisit our service worker e10s design for
> >>         b2g at the December work week.  I would recommend waiting to do
> >>         any major changes until after that session.
> >>
> >>         Ben
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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