I found that a number of applications cannot be written without XHR, starting with anything that looks like a feed reader, or anything that needs to scrap a third-party website. We need a solution for this.
Cheers, David On 30/01/15 17:53, Benjamin Francis wrote: > On 30 January 2015 at 16:03, Andrew Overholt <overh...@mozilla.com > <mailto:overh...@mozilla.com>> wrote: > > Is it possible for us to get a list of the non-standard APIs that > are being > used, sorted by usage? I'd like to say work is being prioritized > based on > need :) > > > Yes, here's a snapshot of permissions used: > http://people.mozilla.org/~bfrancis/images/permissions-2015-01-30.png > <http://people.mozilla.org/%7Ebfrancis/images/permissions-2015-01-30.png> > > 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. > > The proportion of apps in the Marketplace which actually need to be > privileged is surprisingly small. Service Workers should hopefully make > it smaller. > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > dev-g...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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