Marketplace/PackagedApps: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:24, 29 October 2014

Should we be a packaged app?

	Iframed	Packaged	Notes
First boot time	Slow	Fast	600kb of JS and CSS, images and index.html loaded from the network. As a packaged app its all local.
Second boot time	No change	A bit faster	No network requests against servers to see what hasn't changed.
Gaia schedule	Independent	Tied	Packages can be released any time, but packages in Gaia must be tied to the releases
Updates	Easy (currently weekly)	Very slow and require user action	Slowness depends upon Gaia schedules. Updates for iframe can also be non-easy (iframe != no package updates, it depends on the change).
Process	Little	More	If release takes 6 months, lots of planning.
Offline strategy	None	Possible
QA cycles	More	Less	Debateable, there will probably be more to QA
Hacky code	More	Less	Testing is possible, but we are using postMessage to work around the packaging
Preload data	None	Possible
The Web	Yes	It's not the web
installs_allowed_from	Works fine	Needs an iframe	Oh the irony

iframed: a page that loads the rest of the marketplace in an iframe (https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/blob/master/yulelog/index.html)
packaged: a more fully packaged version of the marketplace, that has all of Fireplace in it s

Version	Flavour	Manifest URL	Origin	Notes
1.0.1
1.1	iframed	https://marketplace.firefox.com/packaged.webapp	app://marketplace.firefox.com	Upgrade path maybe an issue for the ZTE Open issues 962524
1.2	iframed	https://marketplace.firefox.com/packaged.webapp	app://marketplace.firefox.com
1.3	iframed	https://marketplace.firefox.com/packaged.webapp	app://marketplace.firefox.com
1.4	iframed	https://marketplace.firefox.com/packaged.webapp	app://marketplace.firefox.com
2.0	iframed	https://marketplace.firefox.com/packaged.webapp	app://marketplace.firefox.com
2.1	packaged

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      <td>Easy (currently weekly)</td>
      <td>Very slow and require user action</td>
-     <td>Slowness depends upon Gaia schedules</td>
+     <td>Slowness depends upon Gaia schedules. Updates for iframe can also be non-easy (iframe != no package updates, it depends on the change).</td>
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      <td>Little</td>
      <td>More</td>
-     <td>If release takes 6 months lots of planning.</td>
+     <td>If release takes 6 months, lots of planning.</td>
    </tr>
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      <td><b>The Web</b></td>
      <td>Yes</td>
-     <td>Its not the web</td>
+     <td>It's not the web</td>
      <td></td>
    </tr>