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Wow, it looks like a really slick OS. I think it'll be neat seeing web-apps as first class citizens - it never made sense to me why we have to use Objective-C o
by antihero 14y ago
Wow, it looks like a really slick OS. I think it'll be neat seeing web-apps as first class citizens - it never made sense to me why we have to use Objective-C or Java just to make some UI or whatever.
- clauretano 14y agoSomewhere, a former Palm webOS engineer is reading your comment and crying.
- drothlis 14y agoAnd you can even test your FirefoxOS apps with the Selenium WebDriver API! Mozilla's talk about testing FirefoxOS, at the Google Test Automation Conference last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41eqcmC2Dk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41eqcmC2Dk Writeup: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/548910/9c5d6bd1bd69f34c/ http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/548910/9c5d6bd1bd69f34c/ Demo of automated UI test using Appium to test an app on the FirefoxOS simulator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE#t=34m30s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE#t=34m30s
- vidarh 14y agoHaving to deal ludicrously overcomplicated environments is what's kept me from writing apps for my own use for my Android phone. I recently took to the decidedly suboptimal choice (on Android) of "simply" writing js/html apps with localstorage as a workaround, so an OS that is designed to actually make apps written that way a first class citizen will be awesome.