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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator
- jfaucett 14y agoNative apps in HTML/CSS/JS, now if someone could just convince google, ms, and apple this is a good idea and that the W3C specs are good and vendor prefixes bad, my day would be perfect. I must say though I'm exited about this project and the simulator is a great addition. It makes me wonder though, anyone think we'll ever see that coffeemachine written in js instead of c?
- shousper 14y agoMaybe if one day we wind up with a unified processor that is built to run HTML/CSS/JS? The arduino of tomorrow, perhaps? Probably as likely as world peace, but it's fun to dream :) EDIT: The suggestion alone could be enough to incite some creative out there to give it a go! The power of ideas and all that :D
- cpeterso 14y agoIt's not soooo crazy. ARM had the Jazelle instructions for executing Java bytecodes in hardware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
- lucian1900 14y agoBut it turned out to be outperformed by a JIT targeting Thumb(2?) instructions. Interesting outcome.
- CrazedGeek 14y ago2007 Apple agrees: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iPhone-to-Support-Third-Party-Web-2-0-Applications.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iPhone-to-Support-...
- allyant 14y agoCan't Windows 8 / Phone 8 metro apps be written in HTML/JS? I thought I read a while ago that it was a option other than C#.
- diggan 14y agoYes, they can but I'm not sure how easily third party stuff is installed and what APIs they are using.
- limpangel 14y agoJust tried this on my Ubuntu box and it works great. Can't wait to try it on a real phone.