Kevin, Your use case doesn't necessary has to be fulfilled by packaged apps. Deployment can always be delegated to 3rd-parties instead of running your own server. Marketplace can certainly support anything other than a zip file if we decided too.
The only use case that can be complex I could think of is peer-to-peer app sharing. These web apps installed w/o a direct connection to it's origin would need some way to authenticate, or we would have to again throw it into a sympathized sandboxed origin. That said, I too is not convinced Service Workers can fulfill everything we need as easily as we do today. We probably need to wrap it with some tooling or client library to make it more friendly. Tim On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Kevin Grandon <kgran...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Do we really want to fully deprecate packaged apps? I think making hosted > apps and packaged apps equals is a big win, but I'm not sure if fully > deprecating packaged apps is a good idea. > > There are many developers who like the ability to not run and maintain a > server. It's simply less work and overhead for them to throw their code up > on a marketplace, and not have to worry about a monthly server cost, or a > server going down. > > Best, > Kevin > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Benjamin Francis <bfran...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > >> On 30 January 2015 at 18:17, Andrew Overholt <overh...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >> > >> > Most of the frequently used permissions do not require the use of a >> >> packaged app, but the second most used permission is systemXHR which >> does. >> >> Apparently most developers are only using this because they created a >> >> packaged app purely for its offline properties, then found they needed >> >> systemXHR to talk to their own server. Which is silly. I hope Service >> >> Workers will help with this situation. >> >> >> > >> > Can you elaborate on this a bit? Why do developers need to use systemXHR >> > with their packaged app? How do you envision Service Workers helping in >> > this case? >> > >> >> As I understand it... >> >> Developers create a packaged app because it's currently the most effective >> way to make their app work offline. A packaged app has a synthetic origin >> which will always be cross-origin from the developer's own web server. They >> use SystemXHR to allow their packaged app to use remote resources from >> their web server, rather than set up CORS because that's more difficult. >> >> If they instead used Service Workers to make their app work offline, they >> wouldn't have a weird synthetic origin and therefore wouldn't need to use >> systemXHR because their app would be same-origin with their web server. >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-webapps mailing list >> dev-weba...@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapps mailing list > dev-weba...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
