On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Alexandre Oliva <lxol...@fsfla.org> wrote:
> [Catching up on oldish email] > > On Jul 25, 2012, Michael Mehrazar <kopole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I was wondering is there had been any discussions on Mozilla's > > proposed Firefox OS. (Codenamed Boot to Gecko) For those unfamiliar, > > it is Mozilla's proposed free/open source operating system for > > smartphones. It seeks to support solely HTML5 apps, which will be part > > of the "open Web". > > > Should Firefox OS be considered Software as a Service > > (SaaS), because of its reliance on web apps? > > AFAIK Firefox OS can run stand-alone, even disconnected, with HTML5 apps > installed locally, rather than running off the web. > > It brings HTML5/Javascript into the scope of application development > languages, rather than just web apps, putting it on equal footing as say > Java, that can be used for applets but also for full-blown apps. > > Now, one thing I actually *loved* when I saw a phone booted to Gecko was > the “view sources” button, that would display the HTML5 with links to > Javascript et al, IIRC relating visual elements with corresponding > portions of the HTML. It got me wondering how cool it would be if it > wasn't just “view sources”, but if the sources could be modified (even > if the files had originally come from the web) and that was reflected on > the running application! > > Unfortunately, I was told the, rather than adding this feature, the > button was planned to go away when it went “final” :-( > > If anyone's involved, can you please relay my dream above with them? :-) > Could you not file a bug/feature request about this with the Boot to Gecko project? Send us a link and we can comment on the feature request too. > > Thanks, > > -- > Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter http://FSFLA.org/~lxoliva/ > You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi > Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member > Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer > >
