On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:59 PM, James Burke <jbu...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> So, I think we just need to set the expectation for at least another year > or two, that the gaia set of apps will not be able to be "privileged", > because we need them as early beta testers for features and capabilities we > are building out for the mobile web platform. > We said that a year or two ago. There will always be new features to test, and with a current total of 34 apps in the gaia/apps directory we have no shortage of certified apps to test them out with. The risk of inadvertently building another proprietary app platform that isn't the web and of crippling the pace of Firefox OS updates because we're forcing 34 apps through an arduous certification process they don't need (a mistake Android already made for us) seems greater than the risk of taking the brave step of making some Gaia apps a step closer to being web apps. The longer that each Gaia app is not a web app, the less credible our mantra of "the web is the platform" becomes. If we can't figure out how to build our own apps using the web, how can we can expect third party app developers to do so? Maybe we haven't yet figured out all the details of how to put the Email app in the Firefox Marketplace, let alone how to make it run cross-platform, but if we resign ourselves to the idea that all Gaia apps are going to have to be certified for the foreseeable future then we're not doing our mission justice IMHO. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
