On 6/6/2015 3:41 PM, Michael Kohler wrote:
Just to chime in my 2 cents here:
2) Firefox has a preferencein about:config which specifies the API
endpoint: browser.pocket.api . If somebody has a compatible API, feel
free to promote that as alternative. Yes, it needs to be compatible
though. If you think that the user should have other alternatives as a
choice: feel free to propose a patch adding the "choice" in a menu and
implement the alternative. A bonus point here for getting the
alternative to provide a login for Firefox Accounts as well.
And whenever that API changes even slightly than this 'alternate
service' gets screwed and needs to update. Or Pocket could (without much
forewarning) dramatically change the API in coordination with a Firefox
update, to block competitors. Unless there's truly an open standard
around it, I find the argument of "there's a documented API" to be weak.
(See Twitter vs. identi.ca.)
3) There is no money involved in this as far as I can know from the
different blog posts by Mozilla.
Frankly, I hope there's money involved. It's the only thing that makes
*any* sense of why this was added.
And a last note: Mozilla management is reading this list so I believe
we don't need to spam this list with non-informative and only "me
too"-like comments.
It'd be nice if they responded and offered answers to resolve baseless
speculation. :) Mozilla management has already been burnt a handful of
times by being silent on matters.
So please keep keep good input coming and express
your support with a vote on
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172126(but please don't
comment there to not spam people either). You can find the "vote"
button in the left column.
Voting on a resolved bug is pretty useless, additionally votes on bugs
aren't really taken into account.
--Patrick
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