The last item in Fred's list is I think a very high priority. Can the buildingfirefoxos.com folk help?
On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Fred Wenzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow Friends of the Apps! > > Here's a quick update on the progress the Apps Engineering team is making in > the realm of Web Components. > > We've just released a beta version of our web components-based UI library, > named "Brick". Check out today's Hacks blog post[1] about it! > > The library has been enthusiastically received and we're collecting great > feedback on it. The Hacks post is currently on the front page of Hacker News, > and over 1000 github users have "starred" the project so far[2]. > > We believe Brick will move the needle by enabling app development with > powerful, semantic UI components, much like "native" platforms do, yet > without losing the Web's inherent flexibility and freedom of choice. > > A special shout-out goes to Leon Zhang (our intern extraordinaire who spent > his internship working on Brick), Potch (Brick's project lead), Arron Schaar > and Daniel Buchner for their work on the underlying x-tag library and several > of the initial batch of components, and to the Dev Evangelists and MDN docs > writers who have proven to be the most valuable of early adopters[3]. > > Some next steps? > - stability, fixing possible bugs > - more/better tags > - building more real apps with it > - evolve app templates ("mortar") to use Brick > - better visual styles > - Gaia (Building Firefox OS) Theme for components > > If you would like to get involved or have any questions, we'd like to hear > from you! Get in touch with Potch or me to get started. > > Brick is only a small part of our efforts to establish best practices for > developing apps. Expect more updates on our various projects in the future! > > Fred > > [1] > <https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/08/introducing-brick-minimal-markup-web-components-for-faster-app-development/> > [2] https://github.com/mozilla/brick/ > [3] https://twitter.com/angelinamagnum/status/371288516090535937 > > > -- > Fred Wenzel > Sr. Engineering Manager, Apps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
