NSA and the future of Noscript
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:39 pm
Giorgio,
I sincerely hope that you don't mind the following questions.
When you introduced Noscript for Mobile in October 2011 you said in comment #7 that the desktop version of NSA would be available "anyway before the end of this year" ( =2011). We all know that this did not happen (which is a pity as its new features are really amazing). In another thread you said that it's postponed "because of the sudden move of Mozilla to drop Electrolysis". After thinking again about your answer, I must admit that I don't understand it. NSA desktop was planned by year-end 2011, but E10 - even if it had not been put on hold by Mozilla - would definitely not have been available by then. For me as a layman it seems therefore logical that NSA doesn't require E10 in order to work properly. If this is correct, I wonder why the decision by Mozilla changed the situation for NSA at all. Am I missing something? Are there perhaps other reasons (like the plan to introduce click-to-play for plugins in Firefox) for the postponement?
I'm also asking these questions as you wrote in that same thread that your top priorities are "1) Android native UI compatibilit 2) investigation on new Clickjacking techniques and countermeasures 3) Chrome porting". Regarding 3) - does that mean that you see more potential for Chrome compared to FF, and does that even mean that new NS versions for FF have a lower priority for you?
If you don't want to comment these things - fair enough. After all, NS is your "baby" and its future development is your decision alone. Nevertheless, I'm sure that I'm not the only long-time supporter who would welcome some clarifying remarks. Thank you!
I sincerely hope that you don't mind the following questions.
When you introduced Noscript for Mobile in October 2011 you said in comment #7 that the desktop version of NSA would be available "anyway before the end of this year" ( =2011). We all know that this did not happen (which is a pity as its new features are really amazing). In another thread you said that it's postponed "because of the sudden move of Mozilla to drop Electrolysis". After thinking again about your answer, I must admit that I don't understand it. NSA desktop was planned by year-end 2011, but E10 - even if it had not been put on hold by Mozilla - would definitely not have been available by then. For me as a layman it seems therefore logical that NSA doesn't require E10 in order to work properly. If this is correct, I wonder why the decision by Mozilla changed the situation for NSA at all. Am I missing something? Are there perhaps other reasons (like the plan to introduce click-to-play for plugins in Firefox) for the postponement?
I'm also asking these questions as you wrote in that same thread that your top priorities are "1) Android native UI compatibilit 2) investigation on new Clickjacking techniques and countermeasures 3) Chrome porting". Regarding 3) - does that mean that you see more potential for Chrome compared to FF, and does that even mean that new NS versions for FF have a lower priority for you?
If you don't want to comment these things - fair enough. After all, NS is your "baby" and its future development is your decision alone. Nevertheless, I'm sure that I'm not the only long-time supporter who would welcome some clarifying remarks. Thank you!