946088 - Evangelize Marketplace for Firefox OS so developers use the meta viewport tag

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Engagement :: Outreach Request, task)

Description

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

With the version of Firefox OS 1.0.1, 1.1 and 1.2, the apps in Gaia didn't need a meta viewport in order to render with the size of the device, and there was no such thing a double tap to zoom. It was because apps were using a different code path than web content in order to render.

With Firefox OS 1.3 we try to fix that and apps now support the meta viewport tag. Sadly it was a bit late in the game and we add to land a fix to make sure apps installed in the wild will not break due to the large amount if apps that don't use meta viewport. It would be nice to be able to remove this fix in future version once it is known that apps on the marketplace use it, otherwise we won't respect the spec. (the fix has landed in bug 940036)

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

I posted this in bug 940036 comment 23, but I'll put it here too:

The workaround we added in bug 940036 is being taken out in order to fix bug 1084321. The workaround will be in releases 1.3, 1.4, and 2.0. Any apps that do not update to include a meta-viewport tag will likely behave unexpectedly in 2.1. The apps can add a meta-viewport tag to fix this; adding the meta-viewport tag is backwards-compatible and should not impact behaviour on older releases.

Comment 2

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

CC'ing Bill and Harald also as per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=940036#c26

Comment 3

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

My first examination of hosted apps shows that 1,382 out of 1,940 (70%) of hosted apps have a meta viewport tag. I don't have numbers yet for packaged apps.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Nothing left to do here.