On 29/05/12 22:44, Asa Dotzler wrote: > It seems to me you're making a lot of assumptions here. This is an app > developer control point, not a Mozilla control point and I don't see any > evidence that Mozilla is trying to persuade free app developers to only > use our store.
Our sample file: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/Manifest uses "install_allowed_from", pointing to our store. Lots of people will cut and paste that file; lots of free apps will only be installable from our marketplace; marketplace diversity will suffer. One argument here has been "we should provide the capability, but * is the default, so it's OK". Can we then at least agree to remove it from the sample code which will get copy and pasted? The sample code doesn't have every optional field in it (see launch_path for an example of an ommitted one). We should even go further, and put in a note which says "if your app is paid, you should list the stores you have a relationship with here; if your app is free, for widest distribution you should leave this field as the default". > To the contrary, we're doing an amazing amount of work > to make it possible for app authors to host where ever they would like > to host, including self-hosting. This is not about where app authors host their apps, it's about where an install can be triggered from. What is wrong with the analogy between this facility (requiring permission to link to an app) and requiring permission to link to a website? If the web had started that way, it would not be the open platform it is today. > If I'm missing something, and we are trying to persuade free app > developers to only allow our store, please point me to where that is > happening. See above. Gerv _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
