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Boris Zbarsky  
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 More options Nov 25 2008, 12:23 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:23:50 -0500
Local: Tues, Nov 25 2008 12:23 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1: Beta 3 proposal
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Mike Beltzner wrote:
>> 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 really depends on how invasive your add-on was, what assumptions it
made, and how much it tried to work around the existing bugginess.

Put another way, any change in the event sequence add-ons see is a
potential add-on failure point if add-ons make enough assumptions.

I think in this case add-ons that don't make boneheaded assumptions will
still work after these changes, and the number of addons that don't make
boneheaded assumptions and still work will increase.

-Boris


 
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