Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator

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48 points·brianchu··8 comments

Native apps in HTML/CSS/JS, now if someone could just convince google, ms, and apple this is a good idea and that the W3C specs are good and vendor prefixes bad, my day would be perfect. I must say though I'm exited about this project and the simulator is a great addition. It makes me wonder though, anyone think we'll ever see that coffeemachine written in js instead of c?

Maybe if one day we wind up with a unified processor that is built to run HTML/CSS/JS? The arduino of tomorrow, perhaps?

Probably as likely as world peace, but it's fun to dream :)

EDIT: The suggestion alone could be enough to incite some creative out there to give it a go! The power of ideas and all that :D

It's not soooo crazy. ARM had the Jazelle instructions for executing Java bytecodes in hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle

But it turned out to be outperformed by a JIT targeting Thumb(2?) instructions.

Interesting outcome.

2007 Apple agrees: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11iPhone-to-Support-...

Can't Windows 8 / Phone 8 metro apps be written in HTML/JS? I thought I read a while ago that it was a option other than C#.

Yes, they can but I'm not sure how easily third party stuff is installed and what APIs they are using.

Just tried this on my Ubuntu box and it works great. Can't wait to try it on a real phone.

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