Firefox OS, "Apps" and the Open Web

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

Received on Saturday, 6 June 2015 21:47:39 UTC