We’re talking Firefox OS Web APIs

By , 1 September 2013 at 10:47
We’re talking Firefox OS Web APIs
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We’re talking Firefox OS Web APIs

By , 1 September 2013 at 10:47
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By Dan Applequist (@torgo), Open Web Advocate, Telefonica Digital

1 September 2013: Here’s another chapter in the video series I shot with Christian Heilmann at Mozilla’s London offices on #FirefoxOS. This time we’re talking about #WebAPIs (and especially device APIs) and imaginative uses thereof. The reference for Firefox OS Web APIs support can be found here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI. I fully believe that the more APIs we expose to Web developers, the more innovative uses they will be put to – going beyond what can be experienced on current smart phones.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/oNgsvxTaqao[/youtube]

The vibration and telephony examples I give in the video only scratch the surface. There’s an existence proof for this: when the Geolocation API appeared on the Web (and especially on mobile browsers, where it appeared first), it was put towards all sorts of imaginative uses.

Now we just take it for granted that location is part of the Web.

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