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| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-07-19 22:54:35 |
| "Mozilla is creating a new kind of mobile operating system that is aligned with standards-based Web technologies. The platform, called Firefox OS, consists of the Gecko HTML rendering engine, a thin hardware enablement layer built on the Linux kernel, and a user interface layer called Gaia that is implemented entirely in HTML and JavaScript. The project was first announced in 2011 with the codename Boot2Gecko. It has matured considerably since then and is expected to arrive on handsets next year. Developers who want to get a head start will be pleased to learn that Mozilla has started producing daily builds of a B2G test environment that runs on conventional desktop computers." |
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| By zima on 2012-07-22 20:50:52 |
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> openMoko? Seriously? They never got a build out that was even remotely usable... The hardware was grosly underpowered and the software was even worse... QT had a build that was the only usable sw to use on those devices... openMoko was a good concept, but the execution of that idea left a lot to be desired, and never really reached the 'usable' stage.... That's kinda the point - usually such projects don't really go far, in one way or the other. If you want more examples... it's similar with Qt Extended, SHR, Maemo, OPIE, GPE. Do you remember that Mozilla had two abortive attempts at mobile browser? (and the present mobile FF sees a limited success) |
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