The principles of universality of access irrespective of hardware or software platform, network infrastructure, language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental impairment are core values
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the WWW
UNLEASH THE FUTURE
Firefox OS
A complete mobile operating system entirely built with Web technologies
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
Sneak peek – Firefox OS 1.x
Photo by: Stephen Shankland/CNET
WAT. Yet another mobile OS?
Today: proprietary platforms
We don’t want the third place
We want the Web to be the platform on mobile
“We want the Web to redo on mobile what it did on Desktop 15 years ago”
Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Principal Evangelist
Minimal manifest file
{
"name": "My App",
"description": "My elevator pitch goes here",
"launch_path": "/index.html",
"icons": {
"128": "/img/icon-128.png"
},
"developer": {
"name": "Your name or organization",
"url": "http://your-homepage-here.org"
},
"default_locale": "en"
}