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by rhelmer 13y ago
Yes, I really wonder if emscripten was explored here... I assume he was doing this all on the server-side (since there's a mention of $25k monthly server bills). From the link: > This was painful, expensive, and inefficient. Clients
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Fabrice Bellard is the author of qemu and ffmpeg (among other things), so it is likely he is aware of the benefits of open source and it is a conscious decision (maybe there is interest from someone with relatively deep pockets, or maybe he
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Virtual environments are optional though, right? You could have one big virtualenv for all projects, or simply install things into the system path (although I wouldn't recommend either)
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by rhelmer 13y ago
> The thing is, Firefox for desktop and Firefox for Android could implement those APIs and then implement 'installing' apps from the web that use those APIs, making them cross-platform. And, since the APIs and all code is open
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by rhelmer 13y ago
> It's not like Android runs all native code in a VM - it's as "close to the metal" as you can get Can you please explain how Dalvik[1] isn't a VM? Sorry if I am missing your point. Are you referring to the NDK[2
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Partners (carriers, or whoever supports the phone, e.g. geeksphone) provides the updates, in all cases I have seen so far (Spain and Poland are the only places that have launched AFAIK). Anyone can root their phone and install the latest of
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Plan 9 has addressed some of the leaks in this abstraction, many things are significantly more "file-like". Still, it's possible that open/read/write/seek is just not the right abstraction in all cases. http:&
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by rhelmer 13y ago
It's a service called everything.me - it provides search for the apps on the phone itself and also indexes a bunch of web pages already wrapped as lightweight "apps" that work on the phone with no install needed, see http:&#
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Which shareholders are you referring to?
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by rhelmer 13y ago
I don't think that's completely unfair to say that the UI is not as responsive as it really should be, I would suggest two things: 1) look around on http://planet.mozilla.org https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pe
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by rhelmer 13y ago
I did a bit of extra work to make my puppet manifests work outside of vagrant too, so I can use a simple script to install to any Ubuntu base box (e.g. bare metal, EC2, docker, etc) - https://github.com/mozilla/socorro&
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by rhelmer 13y ago
Firefox edges ahead of Chrome in performance, memory usage, startup time, reliability.
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Etherpad 2013 Meetup Videos on Air Mozilla(rhelmer.org)
2 points by rhelmer 14y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 14y ago
Perhaps it is not clear from the article, but the twitter app is a third-party application in the marketplace written by Twitter not Mozilla: http://blog.twitter.com/2013/02/twitter-for-firefox-os.html
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by rhelmer 14y ago
This seems like the most optimal way forward to me - what is the alternative? Detecting and working around suboptimal behavior in websites that were not intended to be applications? Helping people who wish to build an application with html+
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by rhelmer 14y ago
I disagree - apps run in their own process, and can have separate privileges from the browser process. Web applications on Firefox OS are not the same as tabs in a desktop browser. Twitter might not be the best example, admittedly :)
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by rhelmer 14y ago
Right, debbugs is a definitely a bug tracker. PostgreSQL is a better example of a project that uses a mailing list rather than a bug tracker: http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug/
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by rhelmer 15y ago
Can you give a specific example? My example about relocating the tab bar is pretty easy; either View->Toolbars or just right-click on the toolbar.
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by rhelmer 15y ago
There's a vagrant config and puppet manifests here too https://github.com/rhelmer/graphs/tree/master/vagrant
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Hacking on mozilla graphserver is fun and easy(rhelmer.org)
2 points by rhelmer 15y ago|1 comments
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by rhelmer 15y ago
Hrm, as a power user doesn't that mean you are more comfortable customizing, like turning the address bar back on? Also, eliminating the address bar seems to be a trend among the major browsers, if anything I would expect Firefox to be easi
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by rhelmer 16y ago
Also, perf-o-matic is of course open source as well ;) https://github.com/rhelmer/graphs
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by rhelmer 16y ago
We only have Firefox data there right now, but the backend that receives test results is a simple HTTP POST so it'd be easy to start publishing results there (the front-end just queries the list of tests, so it'd show these in the "add data
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Arewefastyet.com is just the beginning.(blog.mozilla.com)
4 points by rhelmer 16y ago|3 comments