Wow, I wasn't aware you could test for CSS capabilities through the `style` property. Thanks for that.
Actually Nick, thank you for your feedback in general. I apologise if I sounded whiney by the way. My intention is to clarify these questions, not to criticise the tremendous efforts that have been put so far. The figure of 400k phones is amazing. Has Mozilla (or others) published this information somewhere, with any further details? Thanks to all involved in this thread. It has indeed helped me understand the situation better. On 5 May 2014 22:19, <[email protected]> wrote: > Does `"flex" in document.createElement("div").style` not work? Where does > feature detection not work? I mean, flexbox still isn't widely implemented > anyways across browsers. [0] > > I agree that we shouldn't have any mention of 1.2 for the simulators [1]. > > Right now Mozilla doesn't have leverage over the carriers/handset > manufacturers to keep all devices supported forever; Google barely does. > It sucks and is shitty, but maybe our branding team could start including > such requirements. Locked bootloaders are also pretty evil. But if we can > get in this space with a non insignificant marketshare, we can change the > landscape. It's not going to just change overnight. That's why we've been > working on a reference device where WE are in control, not hardware > vendors. Will that pan out? We will see... > > For now, target 1.1. Soon, many devices will start shipping with 1.3 or > receiving OTA updates. Ignore 1.2. If you're not happy with MDN, it's a > public wiki, edit where you see fit. The person who says it cannot be done > should not interrupt the person who is doing it. Also, Feature Detection, > Feature Detection, Feature Detection. If you have trouble detecting > support for some feature, email me directly, and I'll work with you on > finding a way to support devices that don't have such a feature, or at > least fail gracefully on them. > > The FxOS Release notes for developers are where we post API changes > between version. [2] I'm guessing you're looking for these. > > If we sold 400k phones last year, I'm going to venture that most of those > weren't mostly to technical oriented folks, though I don't think we have > the market research to accurately describe our actual customers. > > [0] http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1004725 > [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Releases > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps > -- Pablo Brasero Moreno [email protected] _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
