It's only available to chrome code on desktop. For FxOS I'm not sure how the permission model will evolve.
Kanru Chris Mills <cmi...@mozilla.com> writes: > So I guess this means we need to move the API out of Firefox-OS-specific > APIs, and back into the regular APIs section? > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/API/Browser_API > > And this is only available to privileged code on desktop (and FxOS still), > right? > > Chris Mills > Senior tech writer || Mozilla > developer.mozilla.org || MDN > cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills > >> On 7 Mar 2016, at 21:55, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Do you like HTML? Do you like to build core browsing UI for desktop >> Firefox? Now you can have both together! >> >> In more detail, <iframe mozbrowser> is now enabled[1] on desktop Firefox. >> This makes it possible to create frames for displaying web content (similar >> to a <xul:browser>) from HTML chrome pages. This is the same system that >> B2G has used for some time to display web content from an HTML UI. (This >> feature is not available to web content and is not meant to be used there.) >> >> This gives us a core building block that can be used to build a fully HTML >> browser UI. Of course, the existing UI has many XUL / XBL dependencies, but >> this is at least one step. The DevTools team plans to use this new feature >> quite soon as part of a refreshed Responsive Design Mode. Additionally, it >> should make it easier for projects like browser.html to run from unmodified >> Firefox. >> >> By default, <iframe mozbrowser> can't access the storage used by >> <xul:browser> for cookies and other site data, making it hard to share page >> state across the two browser frame types. An additional feature <iframe >> mozbrowser noisolation> has been added, which gives the frame access to the >> same storage as <xul:browser>. This is only meant for use on desktop >> Firefox to allow HTML and XUL browser frames to work together. >> >> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1238160 >> >> - Ryan >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

