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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by masklinn on Thursday September 13, 2012 @01:04PM (#4517288)
> For example, they moved from a Java based solution to JS using v8 from webOS 1.x to 2.x.

Wow, you may want to do some basic checking on your assertions there:

* webOS never used Java, Luna (webOS-to-be) was a skunkworks alternative to the Java-based Prima project. there was java stuff below from Prima, it was not the application core and was never made available to developers

* webOS always used both Webkit and V8 for its application runtime (Palm was the first company to ship a mobile V8 port)

http://blogs.gurulabs.com/dax/2009/06/palm-pre-webos.html

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/5/3062611/palm-webos-hp-insid...

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by unwiredben on Thursday September 13, 2012 @03:16PM (#4518017)
webOS 1.x shipped with a Java runtime that was used to run basic system services like the email engine. This didn't show up directly in applications, but all the PIM apps made use of the Java code over the Luna Service Bus. 2.0 shipped with all the Java code removed, reimplemented either as native code or node.js-based services, but still communicating over the LSB.
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by newman314 on Friday September 14, 2012 @02:06AM (#4520309)
webOS 1.x shipped with Java under the hood.

I was having a brain fart moment last night and meant node when I mentioned v8. Specifically, webOS 2.x+ shipped with node based services which replaced a lot(all/most?) of the java based services.

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