Lisa, I hope those of us who choose to buy a "Flame" on the open market, since we're not eligible for a Mozilla-supplied device, will not suffer from the same dismal fate as those of us who bought a ZTE Open. I just the other day managed to get a home-compiled build of 1.4 flashed to my open, and since I got the device in September of last year it's been nothing but trouble. If there was a partnership between ZTE and Mozilla to support developers, I didn't see *any* evidence of it.
Is there in fact a plan, strategy, web site, whatever for supporting "Flame" devices for those who plunk down the cash for one? On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Lisa Brewster <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 alreadyŠ > >> > > > >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 > -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism on a Stick http://j.mp/CompJournoStickOverview My poltergeist can beat up your zeitgeist. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
