Hi, I let me present myself. My name is Jorge and I am a fxos user and developer: https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/freebike/ https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/cloudactivity/
I love that idea. As user I only use my expensive ipad for reading web and pdfs and think that a cheap tablet with a decent pixel ratio It could work, at least for me. >From the IOT point of view I think it could work as showcase, I mean, if you >use a phone to interact with nearby devices you have to look for those devices >through a small UI. A tablet has a big screen where widgets can show IOT devices in your home in more fashionable way, like "Digital picture frame" mixin webcards, nest thermostat, etc... Maybe the tablet with magnets on the fridge where "vaani" (voice assistant) helps to make the shopping list on amazon or look for a recipe on the web. A simple web app that allows you to put timers with (voice) while you are cooking and you have your hands dirty with flour. People can watch media from DLNA devices, check photos from NAS. You can be browsing the web and send torrent URLS to transmission-daemon web interface to your rpi 24/7 mini-server. Fathers can check the remote camera in the room of his newborn child with the tablet. But I think that also it's important that it would help to keep alive the b2g stack. It's really sad that now when the OS started to have interesting things like SW, addons, pin (deep linking) and Firefox Hello, it will be killed. I think it's ok for Mozilla to take strategic step backs like leave the commercial phone landscape, but to discard the full web stack because **now** it's not competitive it seems a wrong decision to me. My flame phone it has good performance and I think that I've spotted the bugs that doesn't let b2g to have a simple "good enough" performance in all situations. - Good APZ scroll but still have checkerboard - Bad performance in canvas/webgl compared to android. I use openlayers3 and leaflet for map representation and chrome in androin it's rock solid, as good as native, whatever that means. - APZ snap points going crazy makes homescreen and app switcher look buggy. I don't know about the last point but I think the two first are int gfx team radar. This is the prioritized list of gfx team: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r9E70GRqjahlcQZUIfQ8Q2xlyLuc4205zLfJXZufTS0/edit#gid=0 You can see things like "off-main-thread painting implementation", "Multi-threaded draw target" for checkerboard, and for canvas/webgl slowness "OMT Canvas" and "WebGL off main thread". I guess that those thing would happen because it's needed for Firefox for android, and it would happen in one year, no? After that, I would say that b2g would be much better in terms of performance, and Mozilla and the community will have a good tool. Maybe it's an opportunity to rethink some parts of b2g and make it simpler and better. Allow to update gecko so the system can get new thing, and leave a very simple system that allow people build on top. In one year we could use the new things, SW, Web Components, etc.. It's not tablet but I think it's related. Last week I was thinking that it would be cool to have rpi with a media center and a web browser and then I found this project from fedora: http://cockpit-project.org/ I use fedora for my workstation. This it's a kind of web service that allows you to control you server. I'm not an expert but I understood that uses a "bridge" to communicate the webapp with the server through web sockets. I installed it and it's pretty cool, it has information of your services, devices and a shell. I even could run vim in the shell. I don't know if it possible to run that thing in a android distro but it would be cool to have a simple: browser, shell, media center OS. Maybe try to make something on top of raspbian could help to spread it quickly. There are tons of rpi, and make something that you only have to add a repo in debian and install it would be awesome. Apologies for the long post, thank for your work! _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
