Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 10:07 UTC (Tue) by roblucid (guest, #48964)
Parent article: Mozilla to develop a stand-alone operating system

Instant On Web surfing was a Mobo feature few years back, improvements to boot times likely has made the feature un-hot.

If you read the post, it's about discovering what's missing in Web standards, so for example devices & OS features can be exposed to applications. So the aim seems to be at fulfilling applications writer's real needs in an experimental way, rather than produce a rival "product" to Google's Chrome OS.

Rather open standards based Web, than vendor locked down phone "apps".

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 15:15 UTC (Tue) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] (7 responses)

Exactly, this is mostly a project to explore what web standards are needed for all that and making sure they're done in the open. This is not Mozilla trying to push ChromeOS or Android out of the market - that would indeed be a loss of focus.
Still, it might turn out to be a product that gain momentum on its own. In a world where Windows 8 threatens to have its own style of HTML apps on the desktop and ChromeOS its own, WebOS another, and others possible in the same direction of fracturing web app access to native device/machine features, we need a player that cares to have common and open standards for that instead. Mozilla has the right motive for that, and might just be the player we (in terms of a community valuing openness) need there.

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 16:38 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (4 responses)

we need a player that cares to have common and open standards for that instead

Well. Consider this firest.

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 16:40 UTC (Tue) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link]

obviously, first*

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 17:13 UTC (Tue) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] (2 responses)

Sure, I know it. But the fact is that there are no web standards for those things yet, and the W3C working groups have just been set up, so it's the best time to make the right standards from the beginning.

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 27, 2011 16:49 UTC (Wed) by roblucid (guest, #48964) [Link] (1 responses)

It's obviously better to have a standard comittee of paper pushers, tabling motions.
Then when real world intervenes, you can have so many revisions and enhancements to the standard, keep the meetings going for years & years :)
Actually implementing something to see the real problems.. how crude!

Mobo Manufacturer's included instant Web feature a few years back?

Posted Jul 27, 2011 18:49 UTC (Wed) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

I agree, how can Mozilla be so on the wrong path and try implementing stuff and discussing the new standards and implementation problems with other stakeholders (in WHATWG, W3C, etc.) at the same time, when a bunch of people without programming knowledge could gather behind their desks for a few months or years and present some well-thought-out and multiple-times-revised clean spec off a traditional standard committee...

Will Mozilla jumping in really simplify the situation?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 16:42 UTC (Tue) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876) [Link] (1 responses)

http://xkcd.com/927/

Will Mozilla jumping in really simplify the situation?

Posted Jul 26, 2011 17:15 UTC (Tue) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link]

Tell me the 14 competing open standards for access to device features from web apps, and then I start believing that this is relevant to that situation.

But when it was posted, it gave me a good laugh as well, there's enough such things out there. WebP, anyone?