Apps
The "Open Web Applications" project aims to bring the best aspects of installed applications to the web. This page contains links to documents, repos, and blog posts that are part of the project.
Published docs
Overview - a high-level description of the product and design pieces
WebRT - a discussion of what a Web Runtime must do
Apps site - an overview of the technology ideas
UX Gallery - A user experience gallery with conceptual mockups
MDN docs - MDN page with documentation
Apps QA - QA activities to test the Web Apps platform
Meetings
Marketplace
- What: Engineering and UX discussions related to the Mozilla Marketplace
- When: Mondays 10:30 - 11:00 AM pacific
- Where: Mt. View 3A, Public - see Notes page below for how to dial in.
- Meeting notes: Notes
Apps product delivery
- What: Cross functional meeting to track upcoming Apps releases
- When: Tuesdays 1:00 - 1:30 PM pacific
- Where: Mt. View 2C, Public - see Notes page below for how to dial in.
- Meeting notes: Apps/StatusMeetings
Apps engineering - webrt, webapi, dashboard, sync service
- What: Engineering and UX discussions for everything other than the Marketplace
- When: Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:00 AM pacific
- Where: Mt. View 4 Kung Fu, Public - Vidyo: "Mozilla Apps" - see Notes page below for how to dial in.
- Meeting notes: Apps/StatusMeetings
Show and Tells
- What: Weekly demos of various Apps projects
- When: Fridays Noon - 1:00 PM pacific
- Where: Mt. View Warp Core, Public - Vidyo: "Mozilla Apps" - see Notes page below for how to dial in.
- Meeting notes: Apps/ShowAndTells
Meeting Notes
There are weekly Apps Engineering Meetings and App Product Delivery Meetings. Notes are posted at Apps/StatusMeetings.
Chat and mailing lists
Most IRC chat is happening in #openwebapps on irc.mozilla.org. Some discussion is happening on mozilla-labs@googlegroups.com too.
A bare-bones github repo for cross-vendor coordination is at github.com/openwebapps/openwebapps-core.
Unpublished docs (in progress)
UX Concepts - Desktop and mobile user experience design mockups from the Firefox UX team (not done yet, but should give you a snapshot of some of our current thoughts, please send feedback to faaborg)
Project links:
openwebapps repo - contains documentation, including architecture notes and "install" API. Also a Firefox addon that implements the API and a pure-HMTL/JS site that implements the API.
explorations of the "authenticated application" idea:
Providing a one-click launch experience would be really nice, but we want to do it in a distributed and privacy-protecting way - one approach would be to use the Verified Email Protocol developed in the Identity project.
explorations of the "service integration" idea:
Using Web Applications for Service Discovery - blog post by mhanson on how apps can power service integration
openwebapps-aboutme repo - an app that just provides a "personal profile" service
openwebapps-flickr-connector repo - an app that connects to Flickr for photo save and retrieval
openwebapps-photosite-connector repo - a more generic app that connects to multiple photosites for save and retrieve