Why the FirefoxOS version?

[mrjcleaver]

Hi,
Just curious - what's so compelling about building a version of MT5 for FirefoxOS? Building for any niche platform, and being limited to the lesser hardware of a phone seems quite a limit.

Of course you are free to do as you wish, I'm just wondering what the fascination is!

Thanks, M.

[micbuffa]

I work with the W3C, I teach HTML5, etc. I also presented MT5 at the first
international web audio conference, that took place at the mozilla
fondation in Paris, where FireFox OS is designed. They asked me to port it
to FF OS that has only a few apps in its marketplace.

They propose to sponsor some student projects, so with 6 students of mine
we are currently porting the app under firefox os.

It's also a very good way to experiment the future standard W3C APIs for
the web mobile (these APIs allow a "published" webapp to access the sd
card, use NFC, bluetooth, sensors, dialer, sms, mms, etc... all the things
a regular app wriiten using web technology cannot do for security reasons).

HTML5 is not only for web sites with http:// but also for "apps in stores"
like windows store (we can write xbox one apps in HTML5 today and publish
them to the xbox live store), the Playstation 4 dashboard is a web browser,
high end cars have a dahsboard that is a web browser, windows 8 desktop is
a web browser, windows 10 will use HTML5 for all the GUI of its portable
hybrid apps (the ones like Office, that will be able to migrate form a
desktop to a tablet to a phone). Etc.

So playing with FF OS is a good way to "see the future" of webapps.

2015-03-10 12:17 GMT+01:00 Martin Cleaver [email protected]:

Hi,
Just curious - what's so compelling about building a version of MT5 for
FirefoxOS? Building for any niche platform, and being limited to the lesser
hardware of a phone seems quite a limit.

Of course you are free to do as you wish, I'm just wondering what the
fascination is!

Thanks, M.

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