One of the significant needs to allow at least some flash usage is related to DRM.
No matter how you/we/I feel about DRM there are many hi profile media apps that simply will not participate in a market in which DRM is disallowed. IN fact, many are legally bound and could not do so even if they wanted to. Many, many video & audio applications implement DRM via flash. This is not to say that we couldn't provide some guidelines as to Flash usage but my suspicion is that over time, most Flash apps will filter out of the apps marketplace in favor of better HTML5 experiences. Especially as the HTML5 APIs evolve. .... and David is right, we want as many great apps as we can get ! -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 2:40:34 PM Subject: Re: Marketplace apps policy Flash works well on desktop already, and there are a ton of apps out there that work on the desktop. - Why not just continue to allow flash apps ? Portability, web standards, battery usage.. Generally people don't care about these things, flash is now part of the web and Mozilla should support it. - Mozilla needs good apps today rather than tomorrow. So it doesn't matter if apps aren't portable, or written in html5. The need is to have apps now, there are some costs for allowing flash based apps (bugs, engineering, quality..etc) but what is the harm. - Apps don't need to be portable to be great. - Apps don't need to be in HTML to be promoted by Mozilla. Is our goal to allow for great apps or great html5 apps? -- Realistically HTML isn't all there, by allowing flash Mozilla can seem to have a stronger set of apps in their store ? -- No one wants to use an appstore with no apps. The growth is in mobile not desktop ? -- If growth is in mobile, then does it really matter if flash based games / apps are used to fill out the store? Just some thoughts, feel free to comment as a lot of the statements above aren't the most defensible. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nukeador" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 2:47:08 PM Subject: Marketplace apps policy Hi, I would like to know more about apps policy in terms of what we should and what we shouldn't allow. * Flash dependant apps? o I think we shouldn't or we will end as Chrome Store where most apps won't be able to run outside desktop. * Glorified bookmarks. o Maybe we should have a independent category for these when they are just bookmarks and the site is not device-optimized to perform like an app. * Country policies. o In some countries some apps are "forbidden" due their content. o I think we should follow the nature of the web and don't filter as they where a website. o Problem for having the server in the US? * Age policies. o Same as country but with age. o Same opinions as above. Discuss! ;) -- Rubén Martín [Nukeador] Mozilla Reps Council Member http://www.mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps -- Thanks, Joe Stagner Web Developer Technologies Mozilla @MisfitGeek www.MisfitGeek.com _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
