I think it's a great idea, I'll be ready to help all I can towards making it exist!
Many thanks! Best regards, Gabriela QA Mozilla Hispano Team Responsible http://www.mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano On 11 February 2016 at 06:18, Gabriele Svelto <gsve...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 10/02/2016 11:57, Benjamin Francis wrote: > > 3/ What's the benefit for the Web and/or Mozilla's mission? > > > > > > As others have mentioned, I think it's a shame that just as the web > > platform is reaching the point where a browser based OS is a feasible > > proposition, Mozilla has had to scale down our efforts in that area. > > Unfortunately web standards move more slowly than many product > > lifecycles. I think the technology landscape is finally where we need it > > to be and a browser-based tablet could help demonstrate the power of the > > web as a platform, and play a role in the Web of Things in your home. I > > feel strongly that Mozilla needs to be in this space, if nothing else to > > have a voice at the table when it comes to standardisation. > > I also think that the tablet market is ripe for a radical move to the > web, probably a lot more than the phone market was. Let me elaborate on > that: I've got a tablet which I don't use as my primary device neither > for communicating (I've got a phone for that) nor for producing and > consuming most information (I prefer my desktop) but I've got a few use > cases where the tablet comes in handy: > > 1) Reading documents, it's usually PDFs which I've loaded on a cloud > storage service (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc...) > > 2) Reading the news / articles in tech press > > 3) Reading my e-mail (but not responding to it) > > 4) Watching videos > > What does these four things have in common? I could do *all* of them > from within a browser. Currently I use a browser only for 2) because > native apps for the other three work better (though I often find myself > watching movies directly within Firefox) but none of the other uses > needs a native app; they just need a good web app. > > There's a few extra things I do on my tablet which don't really have a > replacement but those take probably less than 10% of the time I spend on > it: games and making video calls. The latter might be done from within a > web app but the former aren't going anywhere possibly because of the > lack of a commercial distribution mechanism for web apps similar to the > major app stores. > > Now, I'm sure there are also different use-cases for tablets and I don't > want to generalize my experience but I am fairly confident that 90%+ of > what I do on my device could be done using existing web technologies. > > Gabriele > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > dev-fxos@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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