Le 05/12/2015 18:08, Daniel Glazman a écrit :
On 05/12/2015 16:44, Mark Banner wrote:
Note that for add-ons dropping xul etc has been already communicated as
part of other plans:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/
And this is another huge threat to our businesses that was not discussed
with us first. In the case of BlueGriffon, the editor is OSS and free
to download and use. We sell XUL-based add-ons.
Have you signed a contract with Mozilla in which you made sure Mozilla
could not make moves that would threaten your business? (I assume you
haven't as I assume Mozilla would not sign such a contract, maybe I'm
wrong, but you would probably be enforcing the contract instead of
coming here to discuss)
Has Mozilla made general commitments about XUL or other Mozilla-specific
technologies suggesting it was a reasonable business decision for you ro
rely so profoundly on Mozilla's decisions? (I don't believe they have)
My point of view is obviously subjective, but from where I stand, it
looks like it's been many years that Mozilla has chosen to not focus on
embedability.
Node has chosen to use V8, MongoDB moved away from SpiderMonkey to use
V8, lots of embedded browsers are WebKit or Blink-based (not
Gecko-based). To the point where I believe I've read somewhere Servo may
try to have the necessary APIs/ABIs to be a drop-in replacement for
Webkit for embedders. And Node-webkit and Electron, etc.
I'm sensing a trend here and it does not contain a lot of XUL.
As a consequence, it looks like a very dangerous business decision to
depend on Mozilla's embeddability and support for some proprietary
technologies. For sure I would not have made it, but we may come from a
different perspective on this.
It may have been the choice you've made, but you should consider it may
be a bad choice and you should consider shifting your own strategy
instead of expecting/hoping Mozilla will change theirs.
It may result in much less pain on your side.
David
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