I would love to see us continue to produce a full-stack mobile web runtime (i.e., just the Firefox web browser running on Gonk.) Regardless of how the Connected Devices plans evolve, it seems plausible that a solid web viewer is good to have around. Can we keep that component?
--Jet On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:45 AM, David Flanagan <[email protected]> wrote: > While we're waiting for more details on exactly how we're going to sunset > the FirefoxOS smartphone program, I think it is worth talking about what > parts of the codebase can be re-purposed for use in other contexts. > > For example: one of the explicit goals of our work to create FirefoxOS web > components was that they would be useful on the open web. Would it be > valuable to make a last push to convert our interesting bits of UX into web > components hosted at https://github.com/fxos-components? That way some of > our work could live on. (And even if web components never get adopted > natively, they'll still be usable with polymer) > > As another example, many of our Gaia apps (such as the gallery, music and > email apps) require special permissions and can't run on the open web > today. But they probably could run as addons using chrome privileges, if > we're willing to do the work to convert them. Is this something we should > think about? Is there solid user value in creating an addon to scan, > organize and play music from the user's ~/Music directory on their laptop? > What about for photos? > > Are there parts of our codebase that are interesting enough to be worth > releasing in their own github repos? The keyboard autocorrect engine, for > example, or the gesture detector code in shared/js? I don't know enough > about our gecko and gonk layers to know what might be valuable there. But > I'd guess that things like the wifi management code could be valuable if > converted to a node.js library (if something like that does not already > exist.) And I wonder whether our RIL reference implementation is something > that is valuable enough to package up and release as a standalone thing. > > Thoughts? > > David > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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