Hi Brion, Ok, thanks.
Is the Wikipedia app promoted to Kindle Fire users very much? It would be interesting if highlighting a term in a Kindle book or newspaper would take the user to a Wikipedia or Wiktionary article for definitions and background info. I wonder if Microsoft would be willing to support Wikipedia app development for Windows with Microsoft financing or in-kind contribution of developer time. Any thoughts? Pine On Jul 25, 2015 6:08 PM, "Brion Vibber" <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mobilizers, >> >> 1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for >> Kindle, or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its >> development? >> > > Kindle Fire devices are Android-based and can run the existing Android > Wikipedia app. The bare-bones e-ink Kindle readers are another story > perhaps. :) > > >> 2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering the >> Windows 10 launch. >> > > I did an experimental JavaScript/WinJS-based Windows tablet app back for > the Windows 8 launch, which is still in the Windows Store but needs to be > cleaned up for Windows 10 or perhaps killed and replaced. :) > > Windows 10 will also have a Mobile edition for phones 'and small tablets'; > there's a unified app platform between desktop and mobile on Windows 10 so > it should be possible to adapt the tablet app to run on phones (or rewrite > it entirely to run on both!) > > > There's also been some talk about using the framework Microsoft has put > together for porting Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, but I don't think > anybody has a good handle on how tricky that will be to use, or the > cost-benefit of working on Windows 10 Mobile in general. > > I've also floated the idea of cleaning up / replacing the experimental > Firefox OS app (which is based on our old PhoneGap app code) and using a > modernized HTML5+JS app for both Firefox OS and Windows 10 Tablet/Mobile. > Nobody's bitten on the idea yet, but I think it might be better than trying > to separately spin up resources for multiple minority mobile OSs. > > -- brion >
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