Web App Real Spring: Mozilla Boot to Gecko Project

Article Introduction: Mozilla Boot to Gecko profile and Outlook.

January 7, Mozilla China to the engineers in Shenzhen Tencent Mansion held a new version of Firefox experience activities, one of the topics on the Mozilla Boot to Gecko project, before I was simply heard that no in-depth understanding, After listening to the share of James from Taiwan, it feels like a good look!

Because this is still an ongoing project, the actual data is not much, I am here is simply introduced, detailed content such as this year Q1 or Q2 bar, is expected to have substantial progress.

Brief introduction:

• Enter the browser directly after the device starts (Firefox kernel gecko)
• Full support for HTML5
• Based on the Android bottom, um, Linux kernel + drive layer, that's all.
• UI and all features are implemented with Gecko
• In other words, the browser can fully access and control the hardware of the device!
• Based on the above, Mozilla is writing some APIs that need to be used in the device APIs workgroup, such as battery status, SMS, contacts, telephone, media capture (camera, microphone, etc.), network information, processors, various sensors, etc.

In other words, B2G is a browser-based operating system where you can make phone calls, text messages, video chats, play all kinds of games, and these functions are HTML5.

Obviously, this is a Chrome OS-like project, just b2g for mobile terminals, and Chrome OS is still just a netbook ...

Prospect:

Yes, the most important is the various device APIs, they are the basis of B2G, but, also may let b2g die, because, behind very easy will have the boot to Webkit, the boot to the Trident, the boot to the Presto, may even have the boot to Qq... In this case, Mozilla has become a pioneer martyrs, sad reminders ~ ~

Of course, even without these Boot to XXX, we can also in the mobile terminal browser to implement all the functions in the B2G, you can open the Google contact in the browser and then call directly to send text messages, open the Web QQ direct and Friends Video ( Now WEBQQ video chat feature also requires plug-in support, and does not support mobile ...

Is the real spring of web apps coming?