- From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2015 23:47:07 +0200
- To: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-mozillas-firefox-os-may-enlist-android-apps-to-its-cause/ "Browsers appear to be a second priority for mobile software at Apple and Google. Apple helped pioneer the modern mobile Web with its introduction of the Safari browser for iOS in 2007, and Google has become even more active with its Chrome browser for Android. But Safari only lasted a few months last decade as the way Apple suggested programmers bring their software to iOS, and at May's Google I/O conference for developers, Chrome and Web programming were barely mentioned in the keynote speech compared to Android" A market-oriented approach is linking Android and iOS to the "Open Web" rather than creating a new Web standard for every little feature you can think of. There are no conflicts with such an arrangement versus the "true" Open Web; it is only another (and much simpler) way to add new functionality to the Open Web, which unlike the current method (dictated by 2-3 major corporations), enables essentially anybody extending the Open Web. I don't think this would weaken the W3C either; there are enough core Web issues to keep W3C going forever. The coming W3C Web Payment WG will be the ultimate test of the traditional (W3C) way for adding non-core APIs to the Open Web! Anders
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