<story><title>Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS</title><url>http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/02/firefox-mobile-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>To me this is one of the most exciting projects coming up.  it is still in early, early days, but it seems to pose the most realistic sane alternative to Android and iOS.&lt;p&gt;Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess, anybody who uses it for any amount of time yearns for the days of laying things out using HTML.  iOS is much better in this respect but has the problem of limited devices and of being a closed platform.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how they B2G (Boot2Gecko) will navigate the patent minefield, but I hope they do.  I&apos;m picking up another Galaxy Nexus just so I can have a phone dedicated to hacking on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Historically, HTML has hardly been much better in enforcing UI consistency. Mozilla may have some tricks up their sleeve, I don&apos;t know.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mozilla Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS</title><url>http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/07/02/firefox-mobile-os/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nicpottier</author><text>To me this is one of the most exciting projects coming up.  it is still in early, early days, but it seems to pose the most realistic sane alternative to Android and iOS.&lt;p&gt;Android is great in that they are open, but their UI library is really just a mess, anybody who uses it for any amount of time yearns for the days of laying things out using HTML.  iOS is much better in this respect but has the problem of limited devices and of being a closed platform.&lt;p&gt;I have no idea how they B2G (Boot2Gecko) will navigate the patent minefield, but I hope they do.  I&apos;m picking up another Galaxy Nexus just so I can have a phone dedicated to hacking on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dochtman</author><text>I find B2G very cool, I just hope the underlying stuff for the hardware (drivers; what&apos;s called a device tree in the Android world) is all open source or at the very least easily available so that people can easily do their own words.&lt;p&gt;In other words, I hope Mozilla can strong-arm the hardware partners into actual community-minded open source, rather than whatever the hell Android is doing. (I don&apos;t doubt Mozilla here, but their partners.)</text></comment>