Jan Jongboom schrieb:
On Feb 13, 2015 12:39 PM, "Gabriele Svelto" <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd rather work on making FxOS run on existing ones rather than
considering to design a new one. There's been work on making FxOS work
on the Raspberry Pi [1] but we're not completely there yet. Completing
the port would give us access to a cheap, easily available board and I
think it would also be easier than starting from scratch.
To come back to this: is there any advantage of running Firefox OS on the
raspberry pi over any other distribution? The ui of ffos is unsuitable for
the Pi, 80% of the device APIs are for hardware that is not present. I see
no appealing thing for running ffos on the pi rather than the novelty
factor.
The statement of "unsuitable UI" is unfair, as it completely depends on what
kind of screen + input device combination you run on it. With a board like the Pi you are
flexible. If you run a phone-like touchscreen on it, the UI is probably fine.
And I hope we'll get to the state where we have a tablet-style and a
screen+keyboard+mouse-style UI, but that doesn't exist at this point at least
with standard Gaia - FxOS with an alternative homescreen et al. might be
feasible though.
Hardware access is IMHO a larger concern, as is headless operation, as many use
cases for the Pi and similar devices are without running any UI directly on the
device - and while I'd love to work with a JS console and JS scripts on it,
it's questionable if a full FxOS environment is the right thing for such
devices at all.
But IMHO, those things are worth thinking about. I for sure would be happy if
the same JS with the same kind of APIs would work on my phone and on IoT
devices.
KaiRo
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