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That is selling it short. In ChromeOS, the browser might be front and center, but the internals of the OS are mostly normal OS stuff. FirefoxOS had JS/HTML/CSS
by soapdog 4y ago
That is selling it short. In ChromeOS, the browser might be front and center, but the internals of the OS are mostly normal OS stuff. FirefoxOS had JS/HTML/CSS used all around the OS itselft besides the browser app/experience.
No I don't mean they used JS to write the HAL or anything like that. I'm saying that whole user-facing part of the OS is a WebView. Everything that the user interacted with was part of an HTML5-based application. The window manager, the process switcher, etc. There were custom JS APIs to handle all that. ChromeOS is quite different in that respect.