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Tizen 2.0 Alpha SDK and Source Code release

Posted Sep 29, 2012 8:28 UTC (Sat) by alonso (subscriber, #2828)
Parent article: Tizen 2.0 Alpha SDK and Source Code release

Does Tizen and Firefox OS completely overlap?

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HTML-based, but not browser-based

Posted Oct 5, 2012 11:04 UTC (Fri) by skierpage (guest, #70911) [Link]

Tizen says "Write apps for us in HTML" like every new device platform (WebOS, Blackberry X, even Windows 8), and it implements some new Web APIs to device functionality. But the phone UI itself is not written in HTML but EFL. You can run the Firefox OS UI in the desktop Firefox browser; phone calls and texting fail, but start screen, app launcher, contacts, calendar, etc. run.