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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by ngokevin on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:49AM (#4515515)
WebOS had a proprietary Javascript SDK or something lame. Firefox OS runs on pure HTML5 standards.
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by masklinn on Thursday September 13, 2012 @06:54AM (#4515530)
> WebOS had a proprietary Javascript SDK or something lame.

WebOS was straight webkit with additional APIs for telephony and hardware access, and a bundled framework to help with laying out.

Said framework having been extracted for regular in-browser JS[0]

> Firefox OS runs on pure HTML5 standards.

Firefox OS runs straight Gecko with additional APIs for telephony and hardware access, without a framework to help getting started.

It's the exact bloody fucking same thing.

[0] http://enyojs.com/

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by robhawkes on Thursday September 13, 2012 @07:14AM (#4515575)
I posted further up but I'll put it here as well. You might appreciate this piece on WebOS and Fx OS from one of our engineers: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Mozillas-Boot-2-Gecko-compare-...
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by sp332 on Thursday September 13, 2012 @07:57AM (#4515696)
There might have been some proprietary bits, but you can download the code for the WebOS desktop and build it to a useable state from here: https://github.com/openwebos/build-desktop
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