Oh, I know. There are lots of huge challenges in terms of making "making a web app" interesting, possible and affordable to people who are buying $30 phones. We have some hopefully interesting ethnographic research on that topic:
mzl.la/bangladesh mzl.la/kenya (and one coming soon for our India work). But the specific API permissions that today's web offers is way, way down the priority list in terms of enabling that set of users. What those APIs can influence today is what "competent web devs" do today and "next year". (Would love to schedule a chat at MWC on this topic if people are keen) On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:12 PM, David Ascher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I don't see any data saying that devs aren't making webapps because > hosting > > is prohibitive. Is anyone? (I think it's too _hard_ for people who don't > > have the skills, but that's a whole different ball of wax). > > Perhaps not prohibitive, although given for what prices we sell phones > I suspect there are markets where it very well might be. As the web > becomes more capable however, it is starting to become a strange > proposition for us to only support a closed ecosystem for > applications. > > It could be that GitHub and such are sufficient though and Mozilla > does not need to get into this game. GitHub has the combination of > static files and TLS that enables service worker applications: > > https://jakearchibald.github.io/trained-to-thrill/ > > We just need to focus on exposing more APIs to such applications. > > > -- > https://annevankesteren.nl/ >
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