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mozilla / tofino

Project Tofino is a browser interaction experiment.
https://mozilla.github.io/tofino
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Use React for the tofino://stars page, replacing the current prototype #531

Closed victorporof closed 8 years ago

victorporof commented 8 years ago

Part of https://github.com/mozilla/tofino/issues/518

bgrins commented 8 years ago

FYI - there is already a tofino://stars page. Not sure if you want to use this issue to improve it or if you'd rather close this out

victorporof commented 8 years ago

Should use React in there. Rewording this issue title.

ncalexan commented 8 years ago

There's an interesting thing happening here, which I don't think we've really explored. The tofino://stars page is content, rendered in a <webview> with an injected API. To produce that with React is possible, and possibly beneficial -- but there's no particular tie to our existing React application. I'd really like to try hosting these content bits (including tofino://newtab!) remotely, changing the React calculus yet further.

victorporof commented 8 years ago

[Posting our conversation here]

Definitely, tying it to our current application in any way is a clear no-no. We want this to be completely separate from the browser, and we might want to explore the possibility of serving these pages as regular privileged web content in the future ("privileged" in the sense of secure, not like how we defined "privileged" in Firefox where pages could interact with the browser). One immediate clear benefit would be ease of A/B testing for example, but this would also allow any client to consume 'user agent data' through regular https, allowing much more diverse interaction possibly with/through third parties.