On Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 8:21:23 AM UTC+12, Andrew Overholt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 3:06 PM, David Teller <dte...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > Should we moz-prefix moz-specific extensions? > > > We have been trying not to do that for Web-exposed APIs but maybe the > extensions case is different? > https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/ExposureGuidelines#Guiding_Principles
Thank you Olli for starting this discussion. For some context: Olli reviewed my initial attempt to bring some [chrome-only] moz-specific extensions for use in the legacy about:media extension, to a privilege-gated API for use in a (Web)Extension rewrite, to make it work at least as well as the old one. So in my case, I'd like to get some debugging data from a <video> element, and build a useful DevTools panel from that. (Currently we have APIs like HTMLMediaElement.mozRequestDebugInfo() to get such data, but only extensions with the "debugger" or "tabs" privilege can see&use them; so any random webdev won't see these things.) The collected data will be a kind of log that captures the changing state of our Media Playback stack and how data goes through it; a bit similar to what an unnamed competitor already does in their 'chrome://media-internals/' page -- but much better of course! I think that such an API could be spec'd such that it is portable, with the output being flexible enough that we can put Mozilla-specific information in there. E.g.: A fixed API to get the data, and a minimal structure for the output, but say, each log message could have a free-form 'data' json object, or some self-described tabular data. But with no experience in producing cross-browser specs, I'm scared that such a process would be time-consuming(?) So in the interest of producing a useful Media DevTools Panel soon-ish I'm thinking of continuing with moz-specific APIs for now, as development progresses and I tweak these APIs... But with the view of eventually converting them to a proper WebExtension API. Of course the risk there is that once we have a working DevTools panel, there may be little incentive to Do The Right Thing and work on proper specs. What do you all think? (in general and/or for my specific case) Thanks, Gerald _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
