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by rhelmer 13y ago
Brendan was the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Very cool! Thanks for contributing this.
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Don't you still need to purchase citus DB to use this?
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by rhelmer 13y ago
The new UI (Australis) has landed on the Firefox Aurora channel, if you'd like to check it out for yourself: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/#aurora
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by rhelmer 13y ago
There is a link in this blog post to one from late last year that describes the first commercial game powered by asm.js being launched: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/12/12/first-3d-commercial...
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by rhelmer 13y ago
A lot of non-technical people use Firefox - somebody had to introduce them. If it was just about IE not being good and tabs, why not Opera? Mozilla had (and still has) a lot of people spreading the word - the Spread Firefox campaign was ver
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by rhelmer 13y ago
It's already been addressed that individual teams at Mozilla have more specific goals with more actionable metrics, but in Mozilla's case I disagree that engineers cannot sign up users. Firefox didn't have a sales team to get
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by rhelmer 13y ago
I don't know the state of hardware support for random low-end phones is, but Mozilla just announced that a $25 phone with Spreadtrum that is in the works: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/23/fir
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by rhelmer 13y ago
The underlying rendering engine (Gecko, FirefoxOS "Boots to Gecko" hence the codename is "B2G") is the same - all apps (including the Browser app on the phone) are written in HTML5/JS/CSS: https://wi
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Fennec is not the core of FirefoxOS, no. Gecko is the core of both, but Fennec provides an Android UI. Fennec's requirements are more tied to what the underlying Android version supports. FirefoxOS is in fact working on requiring even
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by rhelmer 13y ago
The "change the open source client code without anyone noticing" attack vector is important too: https://brendaneich.com/2014/01/trust-but-verify/
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Mozilla puts your privacy first(mozilla.org)
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Your first assertion is highly subjective, but compared to all the other mobile phone players I'd say it's laughable. Your second is demonstrably false - both the Mozilla Foundation and its wholly-owned Corporation have awesome bo
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Firefox OS is adding new platform APIs and developing them into web standards: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Reference#Firefox_O...
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by rhelmer 13y ago
You can add any web page to the home screen as a launchable icon (the "adaptive app search" lets you search through curated ones), which is basically a standalone chromeless browser. Open Web Apps can be packaged and served via th
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Are there any phones that do not require proprietary drivers? I am not aware of any.
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by rhelmer 13y ago
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by rhelmer 13y ago
It is not "internal backing", there's a search referral deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is driven by its
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by rhelmer 13y ago
The development process is arguably more open - everything happens in public repositories, many different individuals and companies are involved at all stages, etc. Android does parts of the development in a private tree, see http:/&#
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the details. There definitely is a "happy path" for each platform, where tools/docs/developer support and getting into the marketplaces and so forth is much simpler and well-understood - things can g
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Think of FirefoxOS as a MVP - it created partnerships and an actual device, and proved there was a market in several countries underserved by current smartphones. The article is about the very first iteration on top of this. I disagree that
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Are you asserting that HTML/CSS/JS is not at all viable/desirable for making apps, or just not your personal preference? I'd like to know what you feel is best if the latter (and what you feel stops the former - having a
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HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway ) landed in Firefox(gemal.dk)
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Not sure who counts as "military industrial complex", but the Pentagon has already said that troops will not be paid: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC5rwPOPz...
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Sockethub, a polyglot service for social and other messaging applications.(sockethub.org)
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by rhelmer 13y ago
I am not privy to any details about this, but AFAICT it's official, not semi-official - http://www.ebay.com/itm/271258990669 The seller is named "zte_us", I don't know how that can be independently
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by rhelmer 13y ago
PhoneGap will be supporting FirefoxOS directly as a supported platform: http://phonegap.com/blog/2013/07/31/phonegap-30-faq/
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by rhelmer 13y ago
To address your first point (my other comment was focused on the second): You do not need to search every time, this type of app can be saved to the home screen. You could think of it like a bookmark to a tab that will run chromeless in it&
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by rhelmer 13y ago
For the example given ("conference app"), a chromeless web page that can optionally be saved as an icon to the homescreen seems appropriate. Web applications already have many restrictions on privacy - you need to fetch the data i
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by rhelmer 13y ago
> It is on the client, I believe. Literally runs VirtualBox on the client side. Right, sorry I meant the situation that Arc was intended to remedy (from the site): > I want to build apps in Python and C and ship them in the browser.

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