Boot2Gecko is a project being pressed on the Android core but especially dedicated to the accessible universal Web applications since the navigator. Objective: in finishing with fragmentation.
Mozilla continues to trace its furrow in the Mobile universe. After the exit of a navigator dedicated to Maemo and Android (Firefox Mobile), the Foundation sees further and starts with floor on the development of a OS intended for the Mobile platforms.
For the moment baptized “Boot4Gecko”, this project aims to create a flexible, open and especially universal interface in order to finish some with the problems of fragmentation which leads the development of the applications multi platforms.
Based on returned Gecko (the same one as for Firefox), this operating system will be also pressed on theAndroid core but minimally in order to avoid finding itself in the center of the multiple businesses of violation of patents which currently touch the green robot.
Web Apps
For the implied developers, this OS will nativement deal with nativement the functions specific to thesmartphones “and will be even sufficed for him”. Translation, it acts to finish some with the applications owners (current model for the smartphones) which come “to the top” from the OS traditional mobiles and which is opposed to the logic of open Web.
Mozilla bets in fact on the Web Apps, achievable since any navigator HTML5 (he even compatible with anyMobile OS) instead of applications. A little as Chrome which plays the part of central interface in ChromeOS.
“We want to identify the gaps which prevent the Web developers from being able to conceive applications which are, in all points, equal to the applications [native]”, written Mozilla on its Internet site.
An idea which for a long time makes already its way, in particular within the W3C, the organization of standardization to not-lucrative goal, in charge to promote the compatibility of technologies of the World Wide Web.
The HTML 5 indeed makes it possible to integrate into the Web navigator of many functions (slip-to deposit, audio-video, geolocalisation, voice recognition, forms…) , up to that point reserved for the native applications.
“Our ambition is to ensure that the Web becomes a platform of development for the mobile. There is much waiting around that “, explained to Businessmobile.fr, Domenica Hazael-Massieux, person in charge for theMobile activities for the W3C.
“For the developers, to base itself on a universal platform is definitely more accessible than the other languages of development on mobile. For the users, it is a question of reaching the true richnesses of the Web “, continues the expert.
For as much, to make of the navigator a support with functions as rich as those offered by the native applications, is not yet for tomorrow even if the things advance through API news which makes communicate the functions of the smartphone with the navigator. And the rate/rhythm should accelerate with the ambitions of Mozilla.
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