- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:11:05 -0500
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: > I don't think there's anything FirefoxOS-specific about their use case. As > I said in my first email, many browsers implement some kind of thumbnail > capability. I'm not very good at predicting whether or not something will > be used by authors on the general Web. > I didn't say the use cases were FirefoxOS-specific. The question was whether we think authors will use it, and I don't know if FirefoxOS app developers are an indication of that or not. It would be easy for us to add some Firefox-only or FirefoxOS-only API > here, but that seems anti-standards. I'd rather unnecessarily standardize a > feature that doesn't get broadly used, than propagate some Firefox-only > feature that does get broadly used. > If it's a feature that will only actually be used in FirefoxOS, then expecting other browser vendors to invest time implementing it wouldn't make sense. -- Glenn Maynard
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