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WebAPI: Mozilla Proposes Open App Interface For Smartphones
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has an idea for how it can bridge the gap between native apps and web applications: WebAPI will be developed as a set of HTML5 APIs and deliver consistent, web-based application interfaces that can be accessed by any HTML5-capable device, specifically smartphones."
I am disappoint. What I really want to know is how big the version number will be. Can we expect the release of WebAPI to start at 11.0?
Fear is the mind killer.
Fuck you.
http://xkcd.com/927/
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Yeah, some of them live in America.
They already have one - HTML5 apps are already a feature of iOS. They predate the App Store, even.
I don't agree.
Do you think HTML5 would have existed without Mozilla.
It was Mozilla and Opera that started the WHATWG which started the work on HTML5.
Now all major browsers (IE9, Opera, Firefox, Chromium/Chrome, Safari) support large parts of the HTML5 and related specifications and are working on adding more support each release they do.
New things are always on the horizon
How is this different than PhoneGap? If there is already a popular open source project that does this, why does Mozilla want to develop another?
This will fail over time but it will fail. We can only hope it fails sooner rather then later.
The idiocy of mixing a layout specification with code is going to open us up to more and more interesting types of viri and malware.
Remember CORBA? It has never seen the light of day in any serious way. It WAS a great idea.
Why have we not learned that a layout engine is most assuredly not the right tool for the job? The amount of hacks and just plain insanity you have to go through just to get thinks to work from one browser to another is starting to make lots and lots of people just go dust off their RAD tools, eg: Delphi, Power Builder, etc and just write the damn app and call it a day.
At some point the browser will have to be so huge to support the never ending flow of committee designed API's that they will make MS-Access look like a memory efficient application.
Applications are not documents and the browser needs to get back to doing document presentation and we need to build application processor that takes in application specifications and then runs them because trying to do both has been, is and will forever be a fucking mess.
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When I read the comments, even if its unrelated to Firefox, all the top ones are only pure trolling again Mozilla.
Mozillhate is the new trend I guess. If you hate, you'll get karma and support!