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

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