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I think Mozilla is highly aware of the importance of the extension ecosystem. They don't want to alienate people https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21

by Certhas 11y ago

I think Mozilla is highly aware of the importance of the extension ecosystem. They don't want to alienate people https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/firefox-add-on-changes/ https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/firefox-add-o... https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ#Which_add-ons_will_stop_working_when_XUL.2FXPCOM_is_deprecated.3F https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ#Which_add-ons_wil... There are also proposals for ensuring that innovation can still be driven by extension developers: https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/proposal-native-js-to-embrace-extend-the-webextensions-api/3457 https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/proposal-native-js...

uxcn 11y ago
Native.js is interesting. I would wonder how it plans to handle things like callbacks for various events though. As an example, a keypress in a textbox (e.g. pterosaur). I haven't looked at the WebExtensions API in detail yet, so it may already be a solved problem. More specifically, editing text seems oddly neglected, which is disappointing considering webmail, blogs, social media, stack overflow, etc... I'm glad noscript is being given special consideration.