Mozilla to open the mobile web - IT.Branschen

Christian Heilmann shows its Firefox OS mobile from LG.

It may not seen so much here in Sweden. But Mozilla is fighting hard to the company’s new mobile operating system, Firefox OS will reach the market. The system has been in development for over two years and was featured heavily in the conference’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last spring. Now, cell phones with the system being sold in several markets around the world. The focus is on countries where there is a greater demand for low-cost mobiles than in Sweden.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> – Telefonica in Poland has papered a few skyscrapers in Warsaw with a big Firefox logo to tell for people to Firefox OS is there, said Christian Heilmann.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He is an evangelist on Mozilla and is working to get developers around the world to invest in develop apps in html5 for the company’s new mobile platform. Recently, he visited Malmö and Conference Øredev to tell us what possibilities the system offers those who want to develop for mobile. The message is that the apps do not need specially written for Firefox Olympics.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – You need to develop a Firefox OS application. You make a html5 application and ensures that it works fine in Firefox OS, he says.

class=”paragraphIntro”> basis throughout system is html5 also supported by the company’s web browser on the computer and of competitors’ browsers. Christian Heilmann has a vision to democratize the opportunity to create apps for mobile.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – Mozilla has always worked to teach people how the Web works. How to write html and how to work with css. Now we take that thinking into appmarknaden too. For mom and dad do not want to build a website anymore, they want an app, says Christian Heilmann.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Like many others have done previously dödförklarar he also classic app and the big giants apps stores.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – I give it two years ago, I think we tired of the apps again. For distribution model is not flexible.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Instead think he that it is the usual open Web that should be distribution channel for both high-end websites in HTML5 and apps. In Firefox OS, for example, search the Web intertwined with the search for apps.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Mozilla does not manufacture Firefox OS mobiles themselves. So far, including LG, Huawei, ZTE and Alcatel launched models with the system. But the interest is broader than that. Although Sony Mobile are joining the organization that is supposed to approve future mobiles with Mozilla’s log and it is speculated whether the company will release a model in the next year.

class=”paragraphIntro”> Common to the models sold now is that they have relatively simple specifications when it comes to hardware. The idea is obviously to be able to cut the price to fit in those markets where the phones are launched and where many today are faced with the choice to buy their first smart phone.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – That is built into Mozilla’s dna. We are keeping it open web alive. We build Firefox OS because we recognize that the mobile web today is only for people in the western world. If you travel to Africa, India or South America, people have just feature phones and not smartphones. And if they have smartphones, it’s just old models that are not updated anymore, says Christian Heilmann.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He is critical to Google and Androidtillverkarnas approach where software and the default browser is not updated anymore when the phone has been on the market for awhile.

– I think not want people to have a bad experience just because they have an old phone, says Christian Heilmann.

class=”paragraphIntro”> For developers should be able to get started with developing for Firefox OS before they can access a mobile so Mozilla has developed an emulator that can run directly in the organization’s web browser Firefox.

– All Apps I have built, I have built only using the emulator. The only time you need a real phone is if you develop resource intensive games and the like, said Christian Heilmann.

class=”paragraphIntro”> He does not or that Swedish developer must despair to the phone is not available here yet.

class=”paragraphIntro”> – I think that it will be all over Europe to end. With the economy going down it’s an opportunity for people to connect without getting ruined.