Hi Tim, On 27 September 2012 13:52, Tim Babych <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can please someone point me to posts or quickly outline benefits of b2g > comparing to Tizen? I am preparing a talk on b2g and had that question > asked before > Some initial hasty thoughts, following on from this question being asked last night at the London meetup as well. B2G: - thin linux layer (shared with Android I believe) with just a web runtime on top. Everything you see is a web app, the entire UI is built with HTML/CSS/JS. There's no native (aside from the runtime itself). - open source project hosted by mozilla; anyone can contribute; also leverages firefox developer ecosystem - uses open development principles, so anyone can show up and suggest future development path - strong support from Telefonica and others - no custom sdk, you use your existing web tooling to develop apps (this is a benefit!) - documentation benefits from extensive html docs already available Tizen: - full linux stack. UI is a mix of native and web runtime (and was to include e.g. flash/air though I suspect that will be deprecated) - open source code hosted by linux foundation; contribution is done via gatekeeping by samsung/intel - not true open development (membership in most project teams is invite-only and is mainly open to people at companies who are building products based on Tizen) - support from "broad cross-section of the mobile ecosystem", see for example http://tizenassociation.org/en/tizen-association/board-of-directors - custom native sdk, eclipse-based, can also build web apps using web tooling - extensive documentation at https://developer.tizen.org/documentation Some of the benefits of B2G: it can leverage the rich world of open web standards and specifications; it is extremely easy to build apps; no need to know C/C++ or to have a large SDK / toolchain; instant developer feedback when building apps; you can install it on a number of commercially-available handsets for development/testing purposes (with Tizen you can request developer handsets but I don't believe you can install it on existing commercially-available handsets). Hope that helps. I'll try to write up a more detailed analysis in the next few days. Andrew. -- [email protected] / [email protected] http://www.andrewsavory.com/ _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
