Le 05/09/2013 19:46, Fabrice Desre a écrit : > On 09/05/2013 10:42 AM, Stefan Arentz wrote: >> The problem is that we are sending out mixed messages. >> >> By saying ‘develop for the open web!’ we are basically saying, do not create >> packaged apps and use the lowest common denominator when it comes to >> cross-browser API availability. In practice that means: do not use Firefox >> OS specific WebAPIs because then you are not developing for the open web. At >> least not right now in the short term. >> >> On the other hand, we have plenty of presentation material and documentation >> that says ‘Use our WebAPIs with which you can make your web applications do >> the same awesome things that other (native) platforms offer’. So that is the >> opposite. >> >> Personally I don’t think neither proposition is bad, and I think we need the >> second to arrive at the open web. It is just not going to happen overnight. >> So I think it is really important to not drive people in a specific way of >> developing apps at this point. > I really hope that our dev evangelists are not saying that, but rather > "make use of our new APIs and degrade gracefully when they are not > available". If this is not the message, we have a problem. > >
I was going to say this, thanks Fabrice. On the Open Web we always do graceful degradation (or progressive enhancement), and using our Web API should not be different, except for very specific apps. -- Julien
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