Features/Jetpack/Make Add-on SDK Hug the Web Harder
Status
| Make Add-on SDK Hug the Web Harder | |
| Stage | Draft |
| Status | ` |
| Release target | ` |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | ` |
Team
| Product manager | David Mason |
| Directly Responsible Individual | ` |
| Lead engineer | ` |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | ` |
| UX lead | ` |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | ` |
Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
The Add-on SDK hugs the web, providing addon developers with a set of tools and APIs for building addons using common web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as well as popular web libraries and standards like jQuery and CommonJS.
But some aspects of the SDK environment are not as weblike as they could be. Addon code runs in a JavaScript context that does not have access to web globals like XMLHttpRequest. And the SDK doesn't support the emerging standard for modules in JavaScript (nor does Firefox at this point).
To reduce the barrier to entry for web developers to build Firefox addons to the absolute minimum, the SDK should provide the most weblike programming environment possible.
Additionally, we might support XHR, SetTimeout, and SetInterval
In the future we might even consider making the experience of developing an add-on resemble creating for the web by moving main.js to main.html and making the relative paths work as they do when developing a website.
2. Users & use cases
The target audience is addon developers. The use case is an add-on developer using the Add-on SDK (either directly or via the Add-on Builder) to build an addon.
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
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Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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Feature details
| Priority | P3 |
| Rank | 999 |
| Theme / Goal | ` |
| Roadmap | Jetpack |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Jetpack |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | Jetpack |
Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | ` | ` |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
