Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Posted Jul 2, 2013 9:53 UTC (Tue) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
Parent article: Heilmann: The Fox is out of the bag #FirefoxOS

Having dozens of megabyte updates over roaming is out of the question and neither is using flaky and slow wireless connections. Firefox OS has no native apps – all of them, including the system apps are written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Thus they are much smaller

Really? It seems to me most of what takes space in modern apps is images and other media resources, where all that HTML5 goodness does not help. On WP7, where everything except the system is in C# and distributed as some kind of bytecode (I guess), apps and their updates seem to be 1Mb apiece in most cases (according to what the phone reports - it probably rounds to nearest Mb).