> On Dec 2, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Reza Akhavan <[email protected]> wrote: > > What if we pulled our email client (or music, calendar, clock, calculator, > camera, gallery) out of Gaia and tried to make them great Open Web App > experiences for any device. I could imagine we'd better understand > developers' struggles, trying to build once, target multiple devices/OSes and > maintain a great experience (ex: the upcoming Flipkarts). This could also > help us identify weaknesses in the Open Web Apps standard and make > recomendations with case-in-point apps under out belt. Not to mention it'll > be way easier for developers to contribute to these apps since they could use > almost any device.
+1 This is something I would really like to do with the new Music NGA app. A true “web app” is something that should be able to run anywhere. However, currently, this is not the case with our Gaia apps. The biggest roadblock preventing this is our reliance on packaged apps and the security model. Once we can finally move away from packaged apps towards *hosted* apps, we will be much closer to having *real* web apps that can run anywhere. This will also solve our problem with app updates as our Gaia apps could simply be hosted on a public web server in the cloud where users receive live updates like any other web app. We should have Service Workers available to us in FxOS again soon, so our “offline” use case should be covered. So, I *think* that means that the only thing really blocking us from transitioning to hosted apps is the security model, right? -Justin
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