[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

[Sameer Verma]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 May 2013 23:32, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of "activities" in the Sugar sense, I was wondering how many
>> of the HTML5 apps from FirefoxOS would slide over to our platform with
>> little change. I just got my hands on a Geeksphone Peak
>> (http://www.geeksphone.com/) and have been following up on how Mozilla
>> does FirefoxOS apps. (As an aside, their apps live on Github, both as
>> code and as zip files, and hosted through
>> https://marketplace.firefox.com/ which looks similar on the phone as
>> it does on a laptop). If some of the FirefoxOS apps can become Sugar
>> HTML5 activities, we may be able to ramp up on the number of
>> activities relatively soon. Wishful thinking, and all that...
>
>
> Well, they won't work out of the box but it might be possible to port some
> of them if  the source code is available. Difficulty depends on how Firefox
> specific their code is, aside from the usual rendering engine
> incompatibilities Firefox OS provides system APIs which are not available in
> Webkit.

Ah! Didn't think of the system APIs. Well, then ChromeOS apps maybe?

Sameer