Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by wbills » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 6:18 PM UTC

Mozilla Open Web App prototype
blog.mozilla.com

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by rwhitman » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:00 PM UTC

So is this basically Mozilla's answer to Chrome's installable web apps?

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by ESchmidtSeesYou » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:27 PM UTC

rwhitman wrote: post #2

So is this basically Mozilla's answer to Chrome's installable web apps?

Yes, but they're pushing this as an open browser standard for all web app stores. It'll be interesting to see Google's response to this, as well as how DRM potentially works in both implementations.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by jbillingsley » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:35 PM UTC

The idea of "one or more" stores distributing these apps seems likely to hurt profit margins for developers. I was intrigued until they mentioned that aspect.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by eddanger » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:39 PM UTC

Interesting. I just need some type of car analogy for this to make complete sense.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by DjDarkman » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:41 PM UTC

I don't really know how is this better than launching a site and using a Paypal gateway integrated into the site.

I don't really know how will this solve XSS and other security problems the web has.

What problems are these app stores supposed to fix?

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by torme » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:48 PM UTC

jbillingsley wrote: post #4

The idea of "one or more" stores distributing these apps seems likely to hurt profit margins for developers. I was intrigued until they mentioned that aspect.

Competition improves products. If anything, I'd think that it'd be better for developers.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by roschdal » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:49 PM UTC

Mozilla's proposed Open Web App ecosystem is competing with Google's Chrome Web Store. Both seem to provide basically the same functionality: a dashboard of web applications for your web browser, and a store to discover new web applications.

I think perhaps it would be better Google Chrome and Mozilla had a compatible app dashboard for the browser, a standard interface to add applications to these browser dashboards, and competing, but compatible, web stores for web applications.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by jasonlotito » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:51 PM UTC

DjDarkman wrote: post #6

I don't really know how is this better than launching a site and using a Paypal gateway integrated into the site. I don't really know how will this solve XSS and other security problems the web has. What problems are these app stores supposed to fix?

> What problems are these app stores supposed to fix?

You've completely missed the point. The feature isn't an app store. It's browser based applications you can download and install on your computer, and run locally. The browser is merely the engine the runs the application. They'll probably remove the chrome, and instead of acting like a browser and a web page, it will merely be the application.

Re: Mozilla Open Web App prototype

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Post by jasonlotito » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 7:52 PM UTC

jbillingsley wrote: post #4

The idea of "one or more" stores distributing these apps seems likely to hurt profit margins for developers. I was intrigued until they mentioned that aspect.

I'm sure you'll have Mozilla pushing their web app store, officially sanctioned. However, you'll be able to setup your own store as well, and sell directly from your web site if you want.