This is a different question to "native Linux support". I'm asking as a result of the discussion in the meeting on Monday, where the position on this question didn't seem to be clear.
It's also not a marketing but a technical question, so follow-ups to mozilla.dev.webapps. For quite a long time, there are going to be people out there using browsers which do not support native integration. Firefox on Linux for now, plus also IE, Safari, Chrome etc, plus Safari on iOS and other platforms where Firefox is not welcome. Our principle is "the web is the platform". What is the user experience going to be like for users of those browsers visiting the Mozilla Marketplace? Here's what I think it should be: * For free apps, users can click and just start using the app in a browser window. If this doesn't pretty much work _today_, then I'd say we've gone very wrong somewhere with "the web is the platform". * For paid apps, users should be able to go through a payment process and then get a login to use the app. This probably requires more support from the marketplace, and may require the user to have a Persona account. That's OK - Persona works everywhere, by design. Users with downlevel browsers who use the marketplace won't be able to get OS integration. They also might not be able to use some apps for technical reasons - if IE doesn't support an API for accessing the camera, then the "Photo Me!" app won't work. (Although for popular downlevel browsers, we might look at doing shims/plugins.) But other than those reasons, if "the web is the platform", why can't they use the apps? So: - Is this the plan? - If it is the plan, does it work today? - If it doesn't work today, when will it work, and what help is needed? - If it's not the plan, why on earth not? :-) Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
