(disclaimer; it's my blog post) I don't think it is - this post by yoric goes into some detail as to why killing embedding in its previous form was a good idea

(disclaimer; it's my blog post) I don't think it is - this post by yoric goes into some detail as to why killing embedding in its previous form was a good idea: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/ https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/0... I do think it was a poor decision not to support EmbedLite more fully, but looking at bugs in Bugzilla, that appears to have been down not only to Mozilla's general direction, but also the decisions of individual engineers, with what looks like sane reasoning (that I partly disagree with, but then I'm likely not privvy to all the facts). Hindsight is 20/20, it's easy to point at mistakes that have already been made and there's not much we can do except learn from them. What I'm really worried about is that we've committed to this 'no embedding' path purely out of apathy to change it now. The sort of "Oh, it's a really big job to do anything now, we don't have the resources so we're not going to bother". yoric makes the excellent point that we're significantly cutting down our potential platform engineer employment pool. Much like him, I was also hired because I was working on embedding Gecko, and thusly, Gecko platform. I fear that we're going to miss out on whatever the next big thing is because we're not enabling people to use our (really rather good, and liberally licensed) technology, and that we're not going to be in a position to keep up with our competitors because we can't offer anything compelling to the people with the necessary skills to help us. That would be bad for the web ecosystem as a whole, which is something it appears I've come to give a damn about. As for IoT, most new advances in technology are met with skepticism. While it's going to take a lot to make me say I believe that there's a viable market for many consumer IoT devices, I'm sure many people said this about smartphones, about laptops, about the TV, etc. and the Nest has already proven that it's possible to make a compelling product. I think it's sensible that we're investigating this area at the very least.