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The open web is awesome because it's ubiquitous and built on open standards. Native apps are awesome because they can do things that web apps can't. Firefox OS
by callahad 14y ago
The open web is awesome because it's ubiquitous and built on open standards. Native apps are awesome because they can do things that web apps can't.
Firefox OS is a vehicle to fix that by building all of the phone's apps out of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and in doing so defining the gap between native apps and the web.
The ultimate goal is to bridge that gap with open standards. A great example is the JavaScript vibration API: http://www.w3.org/TR/vibration/ http://www.w3.org/TR/vibration/. It's already landed in Webkit, too! https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72010 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72010
Mozilla can make sure these sorts of APIs are supported across desktop Firefox, Firefox for Android, and Firefox OS, but we're not trying to do this alone -- the goal is for open, inter-operable standards to win.