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<p>Following up to this, I would also like the core developers'
opinion on Jörg's suggestion: would it be feasible to do "show
and tell" of Add-ons to the core team to discuss ways to handle
this (or similar features / workarounds) before they start to
come up with APIs that no mail Add-on developer needs?<br>
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<p>thanks for your consideration,<br>
Axel<br>
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legacy support: Moving forward<br>
<b>From:</b>John Bieling <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john.bieling@gmx.de"><john.bieling@gmx.de></a><br>
<b>To:</b>Thunderbird Planning (Moderated)
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"><tb-planning@mozilla.org></a> <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, 10/6/2019, 10:33 10:33 IST +0100 [Week
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>so learning WebExt is inevitable now. I have to start from
scratch. My current knowledge about WebExt: Zero. That is going
to be a hard time.</p>
<p>I will have a lot of questions, which probably only core
developers can answer. But I think tb-planning is not the right
place to ask them, but <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thunderbird.topicbox.com" moz-do-not-send="true">https://thunderbird.topicbox.com</a>,
correct?<br>
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<p>As we really need support of core devs to help us, will you
follow topics there? Time is running fast and answers are needed
fast. Will you be there?</p>
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</p>
<p>One question is of general nature and thus I want to ask it
here: <b>Why will WebExt Experiments be disabled in a few
years?</b></p>
<p>We are in this situation, because Firefox/Mozilla decided, that
WebExt is the new thing. If Firefox would not have done that, we
would be still be able to create powerful add-ons, which can do
almost everything. There has never been a security issue with
Thunderbird extensions. The reason Firefox closed WebExt
Experiments, are security issues, I think.</p>
<p>I can understand, that we need to follow the WebExt path, but
disabling WebExt Experiments is your own choice, right? If
WebExt Experiments do allow us to do all the things we need, why
are we not allowed to use them (later)? <br>
</p>
<p>Sure, if there are WebExt Experiments, that are of general use,
they should be moved as MailExtension API to core. But there
will be experiments, that will be useful only to a single
add-on. Why should that be moved into core? And there is still
the chance, that it gets rejected. Also, it makes add-on
development much harder, as you have to send patches to core.<br>
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<p>I think this question must be answered now, as I do not want to
go through this in 5 years, when my addons again stop working,
because WebExt Experiments will be disabled.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your time</p>
<p>John<br>
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