“It’s not a static build, it’s alive! a truly interactive environment. In a couple of weeks I was ready to put together an example app and an unofficial presentation on the topic (presented at the local LinuxDay 2012):Įxample App: Chrono for Gaia (user interface of Firefox OS):ĭuring this presentation I tried to highlight an important strength I believe Firefox OS and Firefox have in common: I could not resist the temptation, so I started to dive into Firefox OS code, scrape it using MXR and study documentation on the wiki. Mobile platforms based on web technologies can be the future, and we can now touch it, and even more important, we can help to define it and push it further thanks to a platform (Firefox OS) developed completely in the open. Platform itself is web-based (and customizable using web technologies).Web apps are native (less abstraction levels and better performance). Web apps have first class access to the platform.Usually to develop cross platform applications or leverage their current code and/or expertise.Īs a consequence Firefox OS is a very intriguing project for quite a few reasons: This blog post is written by Luca Greco, a Mozilla community member who loves to hack, especially on JavaScript and other web-related technologies.Ī lot of developers are already creating mobile applications using Web technologies (powered by containers like Phonegap/Cordova as an example),
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