Steve, The web is built on html / javascript / css, and generally there are lots of different implementations for websites, games, blogs, video / picture sharing, social networks, and they all use this same standard. You have multiple ways to deliver your app to the end user. You can package your entire app up, and deliver it as a bundle of html /js / css. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Packaged_apps or you can have your app hosted on the web and installed by the end user. The good thing about the web is you can take snippets, learn how someone else created a css transition, or animation. There is never a shortage of people who would try to clone your software and release a similar app, however I don't think this has been a problem for the web, and don't really think you'll have much of a problem on mobile.
Also, there are several tools out there that you can use to obfuscate / minimize your css /js which for your purposes should make your actual code harder to decipher, but not harder to copy. -David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Cunliffe" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 4, 2013 8:59:10 AM Subject: source code access One of the biggest concerns on other mobile platforms is access to source code/piracy. When an app is placed in the Firefox OS marketplace (or other store) and users can download/purchase it... do the (savvy) end users have access to the underlying source code? or is the content placed on their device in a folder that they don't have typical read access to thus can't see the actual code (e.g. steal it & clone) or copy the app to another device (e.g. piracy)? Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
