1028578 - precise version in the compatibility settings of the app

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 969260

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect)

Description

[mmhfiresex]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140614055927

Steps to reproduce:

I created an app that make use of flexboxes: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/mmh-vibrator/
(OK, it's a strange app, but it was to see how mozilla accepts it, and to create a first simple app in order to make what I want later)

As you may know, flexboxes only work well since Firefox 28, and thus in Firefox OS 1.3 (based on Firefox 28)
see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/28.0/releasenotes/
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS#Release_history


Actual results:

when a user want to install my app, no tests are done to know if its device can manage flexboxes or not. Thus, he installs it, and it doesn't work (and eventually, he sends me a portuguese mail that I barely understand ^^)

however, such tests are done for the javascript APIs (if you want to install an app which requires G-sensors on a device that doesn't have it, the marletplace forbid it)


Expected results:

I've written in the description of the app that it only works with FxOS 1.3+, but people don't read it, or are not aware of their FxOS version...

We should be able to precise that an app can't be run on FxOS under 1.X to make the marketplace forbid the installation.
Or maybe you'll have a greater idea to do so? but we should automate the process.

Thanks for reading :)