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Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla

Posted by Unknown on from the netcraft-reports-xul-is-dying-or-something dept.

judgecorp writes "Mozilla's mobile operating system Firefox OS will win overwhelming support from developers because it dropped XUL in favour of HTML5, says the head of Mozilla Europe in an interview. Firefox OS is more open than iOS and Android, and 75 percent of apps are already written in HTML5."

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  1. Go for it by DJ+Jones · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firefox already uses more memory than any OS I own so what the hell, go for it. Maybe Windows 8 can become a light-weight browser that runs on top of it.

  2. Re:Article Summary... by game+kid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or, "Everyone uses HTML5, right? So if we just gut our UI code and write it in HTML5 and tout its HTML5 use enough times on HTML5 news sites and our HTML5 wiki-thing, then we'll get lots of HTML5 fans to use our HTML5 OS. HTML5 HTML5!!!!! *continues to yell 'HTML5' and 'Beefcake' with decreasing coherence*"

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  3. Re:Article Summary... by aix+tom · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are still on HTML5? Shouldn't they by now be on at least HTML23 to get ahead of Google?

  4. Re:Article Summary... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    HTML23 was soooo 30 minutes ago. Firefox 143 has HTML25.

    Oops writing this post took long enough that we are now on Firefox 150.

  5. Re:This sounds awfully familiar. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox OS? Didn't Netscape try to do that with Communicator 4 and fail horribly?

    No and yes.

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  6. Firefox OS Is Just What I Need by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally -- an OS that CAN'T PLAY MP3's. I'm sure it will be very popular.
    Mozilla is floundering hard -- maybe they should just go away.

  7. Re:Article Summary... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I don't think I'm kidding."

    So... who would know for sure?

  8. Re:This sounds awfully familiar. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Firefox OS? Didn't Netscape try to do that with Communicator 4 and fail horribly?

    No and yes.

    Ah, thanks. That clears things up.

  9. Re:This sounds awfully familiar. by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    The point of Firefox "OS" is to use the web browser to display a popup saying:

    A script on this page is running slowly.

          [stop] [continue]

    FTFY.

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