On 12 Feb 2014, at 20:58, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/12/14, 12:48 PM, Chris Mills wrote: >> >> On 12 Feb 2014, at 20:41, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 2/12/14, 10:25 AM, Chris Mills wrote: >>>> A quick terminology question: >>>> >>>> What is more correct, "Boot to Gecko" or “Boot2Gecko” ? >>>> >>>> Obviously “B2G” is more correct than “BtoG” or other such >>>> variants, but we weren’t sure about the expanded version. We want >>>> to get it correct across all docs, going forward. >>> >>> Firefox OS? I thought we were supposed to avoid the names >>> "Boot2Gecko" and "B2G"? Or is B2G our white-label branding? >> >> As far as I understand it, Firefox OS is B2G/Boot2Gecko + Mozilla’s >> branding and services (and those of our partners, where applicable.) >> OEMs have to follow certain guidelines to have their phone branded as >> Firefox OS, so B2G is kind of a white label of sorts, as well as >> being the original engineering codename. >> >> Web developers largely don’t care about this distinction, but it >> matters more to platform developers (e.g. those from OEMs.) I’m using >> “Firefox OS” in most places on MDN, but there are a few places where >> I explain the distinctions mentioned above, and I wanted to make sure >> I got it right. >> > > I think this is a great explanation, Chris, and says it even better than the > quote I excerpted in my reply. > > I've been thinking about the need for some kind of FAQ for this list and the > m.d.gaia list. Maybe a wiki page is a good place to start. I'll see if I > can't stand something up next week, assuming we don't already have it.
I’d be more than happy to host a general FAQ on the Firefox OS zone, to answer this kind of stuff. There are a few places that already seek to answer such questions, e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Architecture#High_level_architecture_and_terminology But they could probably be collated and presented better. _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
