"If you build a <FFPWA>, it'll work on mobile, and of course it'll work on FirefoxOS, because FirefoxOS is just the web. But if you target FFOS, not only will your app work on the web, but it will also have superpowers when running inside of FFOS"
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Replying to @wycats @andreasgal and
FFOS started in 2011. PWA were far from being a thing then.
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Replying to @fabricedesre @andreasgal and
@slightlylate,@annevk and I were pitching them to anyone who would listen *at the time*. I spoke with FFOS folks at the first Chrome Dev Summit.@annevk and I commiserated *at the time*.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @wycats @fabricedesre and
I wrote this in 2013, after running for TAG in 2012 overtly to fix the app cache mess: http://yehudakatz.com/2013/05/21/extend-the-web-forward/ … I wrote the Extensible Web Manifesto in 2013 in part to push back against the widely held belief that packaged apps were the only way forward.
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Replying to @wycats @fabricedesre and
FFOS engineers were aware of the PWA vision at the time, and just didn't believe it was worth prioritizing. Full stop.
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Replying to @wycats @andreasgal and
because you pretend to know what we believed in, while it's clearly not the case. Your whole view of what happened in FFOS is an alternate reality
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Replying to @fabricedesre @andreasgal and
I was a Mozillian (such as the term makes sense) at the time, and have worked closely with Mozilla leaders and standards folks on web components, service worker, asm.js/wasm for years. More recently, I have attended literally every Mozilla all-hands.
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Replying to @wycats @fabricedesre and
I am not trying to claim I know what the top FFOS leadership was thinking, which is why I said "Mozilla engineers" and not "top FFOS leadership". But I do know that multiple people at Mozilla were aware of the alternatives and felt it shouldn't be prioritized.
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I also have no idea "what happened" with FFOS, but I do know that I've worked with clients in major publishing companies and top-10 apps, and that they weren't interested in helping another platform, but are interested in PWA and even AMP.
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