Posted May 10, 2012 11:51 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
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Exactly my thoughts. What are the differences with the OpenWebDevice, how compatible will the applications be, and why should users care?
Above all, why bother re-orienting a platform which has changed directions a hundred times before, and chasing another set of tail-lights for a few cycles before deciding on a new target? And they complain that there are few developers, because mysteriously people don't trust them. Odd!
Another change of course
Posted May 10, 2012 16:37 UTC (Thu) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)
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With regards to B2G, maybe the common point is that they are both
> part of the W3C's new Core Mobile Web Platform Group http://coremob.org/
As long as they agree on standard APIs…
TizenConf: Pitching HTML5 as a development framework
Posted May 11, 2012 13:07 UTC (Fri) by n8willis (editor, #43041)
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I don't think agreeing on W3C web APIs should be conflated with "joining B2G." The runtimes are different (perhaps very different), and when the web runtime is the entire platform, that's a big deal.