You got it right, that's exactly what our dev evangelists are saying. They are some of the fiercest open web (not: Firefox os silo) advocates I know. Cross-platform considerations are front and center to the story we're writing for developers, and "use our powerful new apis when you have them, do something sane otherwise" is a key part of it.
Fred -- Sent from my phone. Excuse my brevity. -------- Original message -------- From: Fabrice Desre <[email protected]> Date: 09/05/2013 10:48 (GMT-08:00) To: Stefan Arentz <[email protected]> Cc: Mark Giffin <[email protected]>,Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]>,[email protected],Fred Wenzel <[email protected]>,Bill Maggs <[email protected]>,apps <[email protected]>,[email protected],Ben Francis <[email protected]>,dev-gaia <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Introducing Brick: Web Components for Apps Development On 09/05/2013 10:42 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote: > > The problem is that we are sending out mixed messages. > > By saying ‘develop for the open web!’ we are basically saying, do not create > packaged apps and use the lowest common denominator when it comes to > cross-browser API availability. In practice that means: do not use Firefox OS > specific WebAPIs because then you are not developing for the open web. At > least not right now in the short term. > > On the other hand, we have plenty of presentation material and documentation > that says ‘Use our WebAPIs with which you can make your web applications do > the same awesome things that other (native) platforms offer’. So that is the > opposite. > > Personally I don’t think neither proposition is bad, and I think we need the > second to arrive at the open web. It is just not going to happen overnight. > So I think it is really important to not drive people in a specific way of > developing apps at this point. I really hope that our dev evangelists are not saying that, but rather "make use of our new APIs and degrade gracefully when they are not available". If this is not the message, we have a problem. Fabrice -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
