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Mike Beltzner  
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 More options Nov 25 2008, 11:49 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:49:21 -0500
Local: Tues, Nov 25 2008 11:49 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1: Beta 3 proposal
On 25-Nov-08, at 11:16 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> Mike Beltzner wrote:
>> * No new features will be accepted into Beta 3. Limited string  
>> changes will be accepted. No add-on compatibility changes will be  
>> accepted.

> For what it's worth, I have some changes that still need to happen  
> to the tab drag/drop stuff that are technically add-on compat  
> changes (in that they change the notifications add-ons see), but are  
> actually aiming to reduce the bar for add-ons working correctly.  
> Would those be accepted for beta 3?  The current notifications are  
> just wildly wrong when a page that's still loading is dragged to a  
> different window.

It depends. If I were an add-on developer, and I started building my  
add-on one way, would that still work after these changes? That's what  
I'd consider "compatibility". Improvements will always be accepted. :)

cheers,
mike


 
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