Firefox Home Server Architecture: Difference between revisions

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Home will become a Web App. In case of iOS it will be likely be shipped inside a small native wrapper for the iPhone and iPad but its core will be a portable Mobile Web App.
Home will become a Web App. In case of iOS it will be likely be shipped inside a small native wrapper for the iPhone and iPad but its core will be a portable Mobile Web App.


So this means that we have to build something server side. To put it simple, we are basically building a web site that acts as a sync client.  
So this means that we have to build something server side. To put it simple, we are basically building a web site that acts as a sync client. When the web app has your data, we can present it in all kinds of interesting ways.


For recent devices (Android, iOS, PlayBook) we will expose a modern HTML5 web site that is mostly build on top of JSON web services that we expose. For older devices, or less capable devices, we plan to serve simple static HTML4.
For recent devices (Android, iOS, PlayBook) we will expose a modern HTML5 web site that is mostly build on top of JSON web services that we expose. For older devices, or less capable devices, we plan to serve simple static HTML4.
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