You can’t beat the competition by fast following the competition. Our competition are native, closed, proprietary ecosystems. To beat them, the Web has to be on the bleeding edge of technology. I would love to see VR support in the Web platform before its available as a builtin capability in any major native platform.
Andreas On Apr 15, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoi...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> If VR is not yet a thing on the Web, could you elaborate on why you think >> it should be? >> >> I'm asking because the Web has so far mostly been a common denominator, >> conservative platform. For example, WebGL stays at a distance behind the >> forefront of OpenGL innovation. I thought of that as being intentional. >> > > That is not intentional. There are historical and pragmatic reasons why the > Web operates well in "fast follow" mode, but there's no reason why we can't > lead as well. If the Web is going to be a strong platform it can't always > be the last to get shiny things. And if Firefox is going to be strong we > need to lead on some shiny things. > > So we need to solve Vlad's problem. > > Rob > -- > Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni > le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa > stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, > 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp > waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
