My real problem with this is that you've handed a gigantic amount of free business to Pocket while getting little in return other than dependence on Pocket. It's one thing for the browser to be _able_ to interact with various proprietary websites; but it's quite another to implement an important-seeming new feature based on such a proprietary service. Now an important piece of user-visible functionality won't be able to function without Pocket's proprietary service. This would be akin to introducing an email client that could only interface with one particular provider.
The right way to do this: define a generic save-this-page-for-later protocol, and let the user choose among multiple providers. Like is currently done with search engines. Then auction off the default position to gain resources for further development of the browser. In the meantime you're handing a bunch of free business to Pocket while gaining little benefit, incurring a proprietary dependency in core browser functionality, and burdening many users with a feature they didn't want in the first place. Of course, I don't really know what "users" want. Has there been any research done on what percentage of users have save-for-later extensions installed already? Or what percentage would rate that as highly desired functionality? - Josh On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 1:47:53 PM UTC-6, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > I judged 2. from the fact that I've been a user of Pocket since it was > called "Read It Later". Of course, YMMV. > > On 06/06/15 21:41, Majken Connor wrote: > > Is the answer to 2 "very much" yes? This isn't a feature I'm interested > > in. I'm more interested in having a setting to use reader mode by > > default on mobile so I don't waste data loading images etc > > unnecessarily. However I am guessing that a "save to read later" feature > > is probably more desirable outside North America. What is our > > understanding of who this will benefit and how significant is the group > > we're expecting to use this? > > > -- > David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD > Performance Team, Mozilla _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
