Apple Safari extension policy

[rev087]

Apparently I'll need to buy into the Apple Developer Program to continue publishing ng-inspector for Safari. Which means paying $100/year, pushing the cost to $118/year including the ng-inspector.org domain name.

Unfortunately, I simply can't afford that. I'll try to set up some sort of donation button on the site, but for now this means ng-inspector will no longer support Safari in OS X 10.11+ =/

[DrewML]

I'll pay for the first year. You've worked hard on this extension, and it's helped me a ton.

[rev087]

Thanks a lot Drew, but I have to say I'm not super comfortable accepting the offer.

[DrewML]

I understand. I'm sure all the Safari users will pitch in if you set something up. Maybe Gratipay (was gittip) would work?

[erwinmombay]

oh wow that sucks guys =/, will definitely donate as well.

[daluu]

Is this a recent project? Was wondering why it not submitted to Safari extensions gallery (that is the current one before the new one in the fall comes that requires the paid Apple Dev program). Just mentioned this as Chrome extension is the only one in an app store/gallery right now, at least from the links on the project page.

[rev087]

@daluu it's actually in their gallery: https://extensions.apple.com/details/?id=com.rev087.ng-inspector-76VT48N9LK

Their current gallery doesn't actually host the extensions or the auto-update metadata, hence we just link to the download directly in the project page. Each developer is supposed to handle both hosting the extension and the metadata, which means you need to trust the developer and represents a a big security risk, so it's understandable that they are changing this.

As for Firefox, it isn't yet listed on the Mozilla Add-on Gallery because it got rejected in the community-sourced review process (twice now), but we're in the process of adapting to meet their requirements.

[DrewML]

@rev087 Did you ever get signed up for an Apple dev account?