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Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by kevingadd on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:44PM (#6274268)
Site is not responding. Anyone want to summarize?
Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by claudius on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:48PM (#6274279)
The OP rebuild his TinyTinyRSS client for Firefox OS using jQuery, which then threw a bunch of warnings (because the app needs elevated permissions to connect to arbitrary servers, it is checked more thoroughly) when he submitted it to the Firefox OS marketplate, causing the app to be rejected.

Afterwards, the OP communicated with the mailing lists and was assured that these warnings are false positives, to be removed soon and hence should be ignored by reviewers, however, the OP managed to rewrite the app using only bare JS and avoiding jQuery before the first version was reviewed again. The second version was then submitted to the marketplace, didn’t throw any warnings and was supposedly much faster, too.

From memory, so there might well be some mistakes there.

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by jeena on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:09PM (#6274354)
Sorry for that, it is almost never that there is so much traffic on the little server I host on and the rails app is not helping.

Here is a link to the markdowned text:

https://gist.github.com/jeena/6337097/raw/aed33410c3376ec3ca...

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by nknighthb on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:21PM (#6274392)
> the rails app is not helping

Do you have any caching mechanisms?

(Rule #1 for submitting a blog post to a high-traffic site like HN is to first make sure you've got some sort of reasonable caching mechanism turned on.)

Edit: Also, Chrome and curl at least are using 256-bit AES for the TLS connection. This is overkill and can impact performance. Consider altering your configuration to use 128.

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by jeena on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:29PM (#6274424)
Not really, I had already a different blog post on the frontpage here and it went well, so I assumed it is stable enough, which it is not.

Before the next submit I will redo the website as static files, since I removed the comments there is no point of doing things dynamically anyway.

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by nknighthb on Sunday August 25, 2013 @07:49PM (#6274280)
The tl;dr seems to be that Mozilla's static analysis tools have some significant issues, their review team's apparent understanding of policies seems at odds with the understanding of at least some important Mozilla devs, and the review process itself lacks a mechanism for dialogue with the reviewers.

Unfortunate for a platform that's already launched.

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by etfb on Sunday August 25, 2013 @08:04PM (#6274331)
Still, he did manage to find a human being to talk to (so it's better than Google, which appears not to employee carbon-based lifeforms) and the human beings had the ability to deal with the issue (so it's better than Apple, which does employ lifeforms but doesn't authorise them to make any decisions).
Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by lisabrewster on Monday August 26, 2013 @01:02PM (#6278269)
Firefox Marketplace app review manager here...

At the bottom of every review email, it says you can just reply to the email if you have any questions. And as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, reviewers also hang out in #app-reviewers on irc.mozilla.org. We're really trying to make it as easy as possible to reach a real person!

Re:My Firefox OS app was rejected for using jQuery in a priv... by jeena on Monday August 26, 2013 @07:53PM (#6280640)
Oddly enough I never got an email, I just saw my rejection on the website.