Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on quality, not cost

Re:Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on qua... by Kelly2 on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:02PM (#9600991)

Can someone shed some light on why they would now allow android but not native app(aka not JS based)? It seems strange.

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Re:Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on qua... by janjongboom on Monday May 25, 2015 @02:08PM (#9601021)

There is an apkjs IRC channel on mozilla [1] so they might cross-compile Android apps via emscripten to asm.js. Couldn't get any info from moz when I asked around in that channel.

[1] http://search.mibbit.com/networks/Mozilla/%23apkjs

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Re:Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on qua... by higherpurpose on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:30PM (#9601347)

Could be pretty cool if they allowed Rust apps.

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Re:Mozilla overhauls Firefox smartphone plan to focus on qua... by _random_ on Monday May 25, 2015 @03:05PM (#9601250)

That's part of their agenda. If they will let people easily use other languages, naturally only JS devs will use JS.

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