Andy McKay
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 434 Total bugs opened last week: 69 Total bugs closed last week: 70 Some specific changes of note. User with roles (but not admins) … Continue reading
Wraithan
Eric Holscher, the author/maintainer of Read the Docs, has a saying, “Docs or it didn’t happen.” This is a stance we tend to take in Webdev. Our libraries come with docs, our sites are documented for install and development (as … Continue reading
Andy McKay
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Because of some on site time in Mountain View by the author, I skipped a couple of weeks. Total bugs open: 449 Total bugs opened last 3 … Continue reading
Potch
When web developers build webapps, they frequently find the default behaviors of traditonal web sites conflicting with things that we frequently associate with those of Apps. One of these is the concept of “deep linking”. One of the foundations of … Continue reading
Andy McKay
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 445 Total bugs opened last week: 53 Total bugs closed last week: 42 Some specific changes of note. Ensure apps show in “My Apps” … Continue reading
Andy McKay
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 398 Total bugs opened last week: 57 Total bugs closed last week: 61 Some specific changes of note. Payment failures and cancels handled gracefully … Continue reading
Alexis Metaireau
We are building a marketplace expected to reach millions of users. All of them should be able to rely on the Marketplace for browsing and installing apps from Firefox OS and Android phones. Part of Mozilla’s job is to make … Continue reading
Matthew Riley MacPherson
Offline technology is mature enough to use, but do most web developers know how? The phrase “web app” has traditionally meant something like Basecamp — an app accessed at a URL. But many traditional web apps are online, slower that … Continue reading
Andy McKay
For the last year or so addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.firefox.com have deployed primarily by pulling the entire project out of github. Required libraries were placed in a git submodule called vendor. Vendor was then a git submodule of our project, meaning … Continue reading
Andy McKay
This is a weekly post focusing on the status of the Firefox Marketplace. Total bugs open: 424 Total bugs opened last week: 50 Total bugs closed last week: 40 Some specific changes of note. PIN entry for payments will be … Continue reading