Developing For Mesquito
Developing for Mesquito is extremely simple, in fact, almost any webapp can be easily converted into a Mesquito-compatible one, all it needs is an icon and a manifest
file
Limitations
As it is overriding the store WAF, Mesquito can only access the com.lab126.pillow
, com.lab126.chromebar
and com.lab126.readnow
LIPC services via the messaging
object. Additionally, as it is running on a Kindle, it has the same featureset as Safari 5
, you can use the caniuse.com (or Can Mesquite Use?) site to determine if you can use certain web features on the Kindle.
Mesquito also includes its own polyfill, and whilst the polyfill works extremely well, there are some things that can’t be replaced by a polyfill, for this reason the following features do not work:
(The reason for this is that a polyfill can add modern web APIs to your application, it does not add modern language features - see Babel/SWC).
A fix for the LIPC
limitation is being worked on.