Work on this is being tracked in bug 1453783 and bug 1446829.
This page gathers technical solutions to common problems encountered by teams shipping HTML-based interfaces inside Firefox.
Background:
Discussion of how to replace XUL is ongoing within the Platform team. In the meantime, some teams are already experimenting with HTML5-based interfaces.
Problems / solutions:
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accessibility
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localization
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caching for working offline / pre-caching for snappy first run
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visual performance / jank
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security
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privacy
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operations
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Tooling
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Build process
- Third-party library use and management