[Lazarus] Firefox OS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 10:12 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> As far as I know, it is Javascript. Not Java.
> 
> As Firefox is a very fast Javascript interpreter this does make sense.
> 
> But it supposedly makes it completely incompatible with Android from 
> ground up (this might be on purpose).
> 
> But can an "OS" completely done in Jacascript be a valid alternate 
> foundation for cell phone and Tablet designs ?

A lot of people who should know better think that the GUI is the OS. As 
far as I know, Firefox OS is Linux with all GUI interfacing done by 
HTML5 hence JavaScript etc., from my limited reading I don't know 
whether there's a native-code capability which might mean that as a 
platform it's even more restrictive than Android.

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