Pablo, this is a very articulate outline of our current areas of fragmentation. Thanks for writing it up!
I feel some of your same pain, here's what I can add from an app review perspective. By default, today we test apps on v1.1, because that's the latest commercially available version. During submission, developers have the ability to specify that certain api's are required, in which case the app will not be shown to users whose devices don't support those api's. Api support will vary by hardware capabilities and Firefox OS version. Feature detection is the right approach here philosophically, but in practice it causes edge cases where not all features can be detected yet, or sometimes there are platform bugs that cause the app to break on earlier versions of Firefox OS. When this happens, we ask that the developer specify the min version and requirements in the app description. We'll review on up to v1.3 on a Keon. Devices running v1.3 will be released in the near future, which puts us in a complicated spot. Standardizing on the Flame reference device is the answer here, but will have tradeoffs ensuring app compatibility for users who can't update. -- Kind regards, Lisa Brewster [:adora] Marketplace App Review Manager -----Original Message----- From: Pablo Brasero Moreno <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Baseline target platform >On 29 April 2014 19:02, Fabricio C Zuardi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FxOS 1.1 is our personal IE6 here in Brazil already >> > >Oh God... > >What target do people develop for then? 1.1 or 1.0.1? > >According to MDN both versions are based on Gecko 18, although 1.1 has >some >additional APIs, which I take are the ones listed in the release notes[1]. > >Assuming I don't need any of these APIs, is there a reason to use 1.0.1 as >my baseline, or can I stay with 1.1? > >Thank you! > >[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/notes/1.1#webapis >-- >Pablo Brasero Moreno >[email protected] >_______________________________________________ >dev-webapps mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
