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Mozilla released a few weeks ago WebAPI, a set of tools aimed at developers so that they can create mobile web applications using HTML5, making the most of its capabilities.
That is, WebAPI would allow a web application behave like a native app and what can access the components of a mobile terminalsuch as the camera or microphone. |
It is intended that WebAPI has the following APIs, which cover most of the functionalities that a native application can give us today:
- Calls: Telephony and API for messaging (SMS).
- Address Book: Contacts API.
- Phone functions such as clock, camera, calculator or settings
- Games: use of the accelerometer API, gesture control ...
- Maps: possibility of using the Geolocation API
- Photo galleries: access to the file system with the ability to write and read.
Being web applications, these would work on any device and operating system without any type of barriers. And if all goes well, the goal is to ask the W3C to make WebAPI a standard. At the moment it is still in a very early stage, but the responsible team at Mozilla is moving forward with it. If you are interested in developing for WebAPI, look for motivated engineers.
This type of API would add more capabilities to web applications and could radically change the Internet. However, the companies that dominate the mobile market need to support the idea.
Website | WebAPI Project Page
Source: mozilla hacks & genbetadev
The future competitor of android and especially java is here, applications written in language interpreted by browsers instead of by a java engine, with the great advantage that this time if it is all open, with open specifications and standards - Mozilla wants share it as a standard -.
As predicted in the past, the OS will no longer be important for applications and the browser will replace the desktop but ...
Linux's desktops grow like dwarfs, and not just the desktops of the already old Xorg, it has Wayland on the way and what Meego carries, I don't know what it's called underway - an Asus with Meego has already come out -
Good time to be a graphics driver programmer, because both Wayland and Meego if you want to join AMD and Nvidia graphics, and AMD processors - in the case of Wayland - they will need them.
MS has become a multiprocessor system, but the tablet that Samsung brings out for MS WOS 8 is a powerful Intel i5, because it does not go anywhere, the big flaw of MS WOS is that it needs machines to work as well as Linux in little machines.
So I see a future of Linux with different graphics engines / drivers: Android, Xorg, Wayland, Meego oriented to the Chrome browser and Firefox, and who knows if Opera will give us a surprise.
Now it is necessary for the browsers, after having simplified their menus, to give it a new twist so that we can quickly access web applications and extensions.
A few stones in the way, webgl, as a flash replacement for games is not having enough programmers, something is wrong, I do not know if it is the development tools, the conversion utilities or what. And the graphics do not have hardware accelerators for webm - an open standard and free to implement - but for the owner of MPEG h.264, which does not exist - as far as I know - chips for players including USB players for TVs. . On the other hand, PCTVs are being manufactured with proprietary OS instead of Linux versions as we promised them. Although this seems to change when Google TV wakes up, Google does not have time to do the enormous work in favor of Linux - Android and Chromium / e OS - that it is developing.
So is my dear Miguel! Good reflection.
Cheers! Paul.
On 14/09/2011 08:31, «Disqus» <>
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The SMS thing seems like a ball to me, super comfortable
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