A lot of things to say on this long message :)
I'll answer you with my own experience.

First of all, you speak about FxOS 1.2+. I think you're mistaken, you wanted to 
speak about FxOS 1.3+
yes, the simulator exists for 1.2, but the differences between 1.1 and 1.2 are 
not big, while the support for flexboxes arrives in 1.3 (and Gecko 28)
see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/B2G_Landing
and https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/28.0/releasenotes/


Le vendredi 2 mai 2014 15:45:21 UTC-4, Pablo Brasero Moreno a écrit :
> These developers can be divided into these categories:

the categories you've given are still developers ;) So, it's our work to know 
which technology is available or not (moreover, the MDN is very clear on it! 
see 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Flexible_boxes?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=CSS%2FTutorials%2FUsing_CSS_flexible_boxes#Browser_compatibility
 for the flexbox example)


> (Speaking of which: LG is evil. Its case serves as evidence that Mozilla
> 
> shouldn't be so confident about devices always being upgradeable/hackable:
> 
> hardware vendors will always ultimately do whatever they want, regardless
> 
> of their users' best interest).

completely agree


> But there's still hope. I haven't been through the Marketplace submission
> 
> process yet, so I can only speak from what I read. The Marketplace review
> 
> criteria [1] state that, apart from checking the manifest, a reviewer will
> 
> use the app for a few minutes. Also, Lisa tells us on this thread that 1.1
> 
> is being used for reviewing.

Yes and no. You can find some applications that have in their description "only 
run on FxOS 1.3 or above". If you specify it, the reviewer will test your 
application with a compatible version of FxOS ;)


And to answer Pablo Brasero Moreno:

I completely agree with you, and the system of autodetection of Mozilla is a 
good idea (an app that needs geolocation will not be installable on a device 
that doesn't have it).
HOWEVER, this detection is only on JavaScript APIs. I use flexbox in my app, so 
my app is only available for 1.3+, but there is no detection for it, nor the 
user will be told that the app won't run on its device!
unless the user know its current version of FxOS and read the complete 
description of the app. You know lots of people that are not in IT that even 
know what's the name of their phone OS?

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