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Andreas Gal  
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 More options Jul 25 2011, 2:03 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
From: Andreas Gal <g...@mozilla.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:03:01 -0700
Local: Mon, Jul 25 2011 2:03 pm
Subject: Re: Booting to the Web
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On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Fabrice Desré wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:27:30 -0400, Mike Shaver wrote:

>> We intend to use as little of Android as possible, in fact.  Really, we
>> want to use the kernel + drivers, plus libc and ancillary stuff. It's
>> not likely that we'll use the Android Java-wrapped graphics APIs, for
>> example.  It's nice to start from something that's known to boot and
>> have access to all the devices we want to expose.  Maybe that's not the
>> right direction, though, so if someone wants to explore another
>> direction that'd be just fine.

> That's a great and ambitious goal, and in a shorter time frame I'm
> exploring a less disruptive option:
> Set fennec to run as your android homescreen, with the homescreen itself
> implemented as a web app, using a couple of additional APIs :
> - The openwebapps API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/OpenWebApps/
> The_JavaScript_API)
> - An API to list/launch native android apps (based a cleaned up version
> of http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/app-launcher/)

This is exactly our current starting point. We have a demo of this up and running.

> With this we can get android users to transition to a web-based solution
> with not much risk : no need to change your ROM for instance.

A number of intermediate steps are possible. I am very interested in making a beefed up web stack with powerful local APIs available to users of existing devices. I think we can do this without distracting from the ultimate goal: breaking the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile device world.

Andreas

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