On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Josh Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great work, Potch, Leon, Daniel, Arron and everyone who's worked on this. > Exciting stuff :) > > WRT to the meta conversation this has spawned, I feel we need to step back > and clearly articulate our goals and assumptions if we're going to be > successful here. We certainly cannot just apply yesterday's solutions to > today's challenges. Any time someone says "X worked for browsers, so we'll do > the same for mobile", for example, huge bells should go off. Mobile presents > very unique challenges. The portability of interaction design patterns > between platforms as divergent as Windows Phone and Android, for example. And > the appetite of consumers for "native-feeling" apps. Etc. Yeah I think we also have to realize that there are many developers that do not necessarily want to develop ‘for the web’. Even though they will be using web technology on Firefox OS, 'the web' is possibly not their target. Realistically I think there are many developers who simply focus on a specific mobile platform, either globally or in a specific market, because those platforms are nice self contained and simpler ecosystems. Personally I think there is nothing wrong with that. If you have a great idea that maps well to Mobile then by all means implement it. If you do it cross platform as a web app then that is great. If you do a very specific Firefox OS app that does not work in other browsers then you have still added value to Firefox OS and provided something useful to its users, right? Instead of defining how developers should write apps, shouldn’t we embrace all efforts? S. _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
