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it seems like their biggest problem is that when they run into problems with the way that something functions their fix is "we're working with company X to chan
by thehigherlife 14y ago
it seems like their biggest problem is that when they run into problems with the way that something functions their fix is "we're working with company X to change code so that it works better with our OS"
- mtct 14y agoWell, it can't be helped, Mozilla is not a big corporation, they don't have enough resource to reinvent every popular web service.
- thehigherlife 14y agoYes, but if you're going to make a twitter app that just points to twitter's web app and then it doesn't behave in a sane way, you can't expect twitter to write code fixing those issues.
- mtct 14y agoWhy not? Is both in the interest of Mozilla and Twitter to have a good service on Firefox OS. Unless these corrections do not break something on other more popular OS obviously.
- rhelmer 14y agoPerhaps it is not clear from the article, but the twitter app is a third-party application in the marketplace written by Twitter not Mozilla: http://blog.twitter.com/2013/02/twitter-for-firefox-os.html http://blog.twitter.com/2013/02/twitter-for-firefox-os.html
- rhelmer 14y agoThis seems like the most optimal way forward to me - what is the alternative? Detecting and working around suboptimal behavior in websites that were not intended to be applications? Helping people who wish to build an application with html+css+javascript (and using the new JS APIs exposed), as opposed to a website, feels to me like a better path forward for everyone. It certainly gives the developers more control and less surprising behavior.