Marketplace/PackagedApps

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.
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
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
Process	Little	More	If release takes 6 months lots of planning.
The Web	Yes	Its 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