Madrid has been the starting point of the conference Firefox OS, a call to present the new operating system for mobile devices Mozilla.
With a workshops and a hackathon -a gathering of programmers to develop software collaboratively-crowded, has begun initiative to encourage the development of applications for the new mobile platform to be launched in Spain this summer.
match days out for sale on the website of Geeksphone of the first two terminals based on Firefox OS developers, as anticipated Microserfs. The model Keon (91 euros) and the model Peak (149 euros) are sold out, although in the Hackathon enclosure housing the Medialab Prado, attendees can test in situ the results of his creations.
Another innovation that have been revealed at the conference is that Telefonica, the company will release Firefox OS terminals in Spain, is negotiating with the company WhatsApp integrating their Firefox messaging application on OS .
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Firefox OS is based on HTML5 , the fifth revision of the language of the Web, which incorporates features such as a standardized interface with audio and video elements . Still are introducing new features in this language reveals the W3C-organism which makes recommendations for the web.
About the HTML5 mobile Microsiervos editor, Nacho Palou said in RTVE. is that “the problem is that web applications currently can not compete in performance and capabilities with native applications.”Examples put that designed Facebook application for Android, originally developed primarily as a Web application as a most part, and that had to be redone completely due to user complaints about his performance and lack of features.
CEO Telefónica I + D, Carlos Domingo, has recognized that there are five problems about the fifth version of the HTML : that there is a true cross-platform support, the performance of the technologies mobile web, mobile web best API, a mechanism to monetize Web applications and another to discover this kind of applications.
On the other hand, argued that there native mobile applications that are based on HTML5 (like the Financial Times) that companies like Twitter and Amazon are also developing in this language, which can be used on different platforms and devices (tablets, computers and mobile) and that there are more developers other web programming languages.
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Sunday developers explained that the project began just over a year to to compete with mobile operating systems from Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) , but is aware, confessed, that is not going to move them.
“Competition is what the web has advanced more quickly,” the CEO stressed, referring to Internet browsers that have emerged from Mosaic or Netscape, Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera. So with partners program of Telefónica, Movilforum, created a project to solve the problems of HTML5.
Another challenge is to ensure that mobile manufacturers manufacture devices that support Firefox OS
Learning that the Mozilla Foundation was working in the same direction, they proposed to join efforts in improving the technology. Another challenge is to ensure that mobile manufacturers manufacture devices that support Firefox OS. Domingo has said that companies such as Huawei, Alcatel, LG, ZTE and Sony have been interested in producing them.
Nothing will go on sale this summer own devices which cost between a 80 and 150 euros, as responsible for Movilforum revealed, Carlos Marin, a RTVE.es.Marin has indicated that open is accessible both to the project schedule as the source code operating system. You can also try Firefox OS in a simulator that runs through the Firefox web browser.
In the days that start in Madrid and will be held in cities like Bilbao, Sevilla and Valladolid, receive applications already developed and will create new games, social networking applications or to control pollution, among others.
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