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MozillaReality / horizon

(2015) Horizon was an experimental VR browser built on web standards using CSS-VR.
http://mozvr.github.io/horizon/web/
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Don't wrap the UI as a "system app" #268

Open timdream opened 8 years ago

timdream commented 8 years ago

It's possible to enable a given permission on a non-App origin; there is no need to load http://mozver.github.io/ as an app.

All it takes is

    var uri = Services.io.newURI(origin, null, null);
    var principal =
      Services.scriptSecurityManager.getNoAppCodebasePrincipal(uri);
    Services.perms.addFromPrincipal(
      principal, perm, Ci.nsIPermissionManager.ALLOW_ACTION);

in the chrome JavaScript; you could do it in a SDK add-on too.

How about let's rip some extra code in the VR add-on and replace it with this small snippet?

(I have not yet investigate how the UI is being loaded in graphene yet though)

timdream commented 8 years ago

It is probably better if the URL can be changed to https too.

caseyyee commented 8 years ago

Tim, we didn't continue development with the add-on after the initial phases of building out Horizon. I think there is certainly value in getting it going again. It gives us another packaging alternative to the standalone application we have been focusing on building.

That said, I don't know much about how this works -- so I trust your judgement on what needs to be done here!