745046 - enable support for third-party dashboards by allowing controlled access to the navigator.mozApps.mgmt API

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: DOM: Apps, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

The user shall be asked for permission when accessing a site that wants access to navigator.mozApps.mgmt that is not whitelisted in the mozApps API. If the user confirms permission to access navigator.mozApps.mgmt, then all functionality provided by navigator.mozApps.mgmt shall be available on the origin that was given permission to navigator.mozApps.mgmt. Otherwise, the origin shall not have access to naviagtor.mozApps.mgmt.

Designs thought about for asking for permission would be using a doorhanger similar to what is shown when a user wishes to install an application.

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Reopen if we find a use case for this functionality.

Comment 2

[Ian Bicking (:ianbicking)]

I'm confused.  Is there something else that replaces this?  Without it we have no plan to give mgmt access to different sites.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Ian Bicking (:ianb) from comment #2)
> I'm confused.  Is there something else that replaces this?  Without it we
> have no plan to give mgmt access to different sites.

That's a good point. I think this got marked as a won't fix during a triage, but I agree that we need something that handles giving access to manage one's apps.

The use case is already described on https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/Apps_JavaScript_API. So I'm reopening this, given that we know there is a use case for this (e.g. dashboards).

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

re-word to lack support third-party dashboards

Comment 5

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Core Graveyard / DOM: Apps is inactive. Closing all bugs in this component.