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John J Barton  
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 More options May 19 2008, 9:18 pm
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From: John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 18:18:04 -0700
Local: Mon, May 19 2008 9:18 pm
Subject: Re: What's next after Firefox 3 and Gecko 1.9?
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Jonas Sicking wrote:
> I think we gained very little as far as add-on compatibility goes by
> freezing as many APIs as we did. Only binary extensions have anything to
> gain by the level of freezing that we used, script-only extensions will
> not be affected.

Mozilla seems to have several different kinds of APIs so I'm not clear
on what freezing/compatibility issues are being discussed.  But late in
FF3, the effective API for extensions changed because of changes in
security model. At least for Firebug this had far more impact than any
reworking of APIs I can imagine.  Similarly the new https requirement on
extensions.  So if some good comes from evolving the APIs, its seems
like it would not be significant additional cost for extensions.

John.


 
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