Name: Gaia：一個用HTML5和JavaScript製作的現代智能手機用戶界面。作者：Andreas Gal (Gaia: A modern smartphone user interface in HTML5 and JavaScript : Andreas Gal)
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Our next speaker is Andreas Gal from Mozilla

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Andreas is currently working on various development of web technology

including the mobile operation system solution: Boot to Gecko

his topic is "Gaia: A modern smartphone user interface in HTML5 and JavaScript"

All right, um, sorry for the technical problems there

I work for Mozilla, and I am the director of research and development

and my group is a bunch of different researchy and development projects from Mozilla

So basically the goal of my group is to identify  things you can not do as the web

and find out why unit can not do that and then gonna fix that

and I want a year ago, we decided to find out why  mobile phones or cell phones were in general mobile devices

If you look as the desktop, almost everything in desktop happens as the web

It's very rare these days that people make software for windows 32 APIs

Everything is delivered as the web and for some  reason phones and mobile devices work very differently

and as a part of that, we started to build a project  called Boot to Gecko, that's what we'll talk about today

and let's start with some motivation and explain to you

why I think that it's so strange that we have Android and iOS

and why I think it doesn't even make any sense to me

those things should not be around when we usually have the web

so first of all, I am not sure how many of you know Mozilla

and the main thing you people know us is from Firefox

it's the web browser product we are making

and the slide we have made we have more than 450 million users

that really is mozilla, actually it also owns a company, the mozilla corporation

again this slide is a little out of date.  I think by now we have 700 employees

and we have subsidiaries in 15 different countries

ant this is just the core of mozilla,  this is basically the mozilla foundation itself

and a bunch of people that mozilla foundation employs to implement firefox

but around that there's such a large community of people

so these thousands of people who actually help us to develop firefox

and there are couple of people who are in this  room as well who have contributed to firefox

and in addition to that, to the, in addition to the  actual core of firefox that people build the browser itself

there is also very large community of building add-ons

so we have more than 40000 add-ons people built, these are things that you can build to customize the browser with, and

you can build small than code snippets that make your  browser behave as certain way that you would like

so we don't do all the customization ourselves

we don't have to be a browser with everything that you want to do

but we do as the platform for you, that you  can go and customize the way you like

and much of that is done in javascript as all

so that's a very popular way of extending firefox

and that is also being built by thousands of contributers

now, mozilla's history goes back more than 10 years ago

so more than 10 years ago, there was a company called Netscape that made, uh, pretty much of the first commercially successful browser

and netscape's business model was, they were making a  browser as a closed-source proprietary software product

and there were giving it out for free for people to use

suddenly the web soon substituted the FTP and telnet, which are really boring race to attack as the web

they came just like lively things you can touch and colors, and

that's actually interesting. So netscape gives their browser away for free, if we are private user, but they charge money if you're a company

and, um, there's rapid development beginning after microsoft decided to make a browser as well

and at that point this entire model started working because microsoft made a browser as well, it was also closed-source

microsoft made it, and microsoft gave you the binary

but then microsoft gave away the browser completely for free, that was internet explorer

and this of course, is very difficult for netcape, because netscape was deriving its money from selling netscape

and microsoft did not need the money from IE,  they just really making money on windows

so very quickly, netscape disappeared from the market place in the background of all this

and as netscape was kind of dying, the one of the  last dying acts of netscape was create the mozilla foundation

and there was a very interesting rationale behind that

netscape observed that you can't really compete on the web, making a web browser

until the web is really open, and completely based on open standards

so when netscape ran into, the, the microsoft very  quickly started to get a little market share

and microsoft started expanding the web as microsoft-only technology

a very famous example for that is ActiveX, who  in here has ever heard something like ActiveX

so actually here in asia it's still even used a little  bit more than it's used than other parts of the world

and that's a horrible piece of microsoft technology, it's  completely non-standard, only mocrosoft can implement it

so this is actually often a problem still to  this day, for firefox in some asian markets

and pretty good in mainland china, where ActiveX are  still being used, because we can't implement it

nobody knows how it works. Only microsoft knows how it works

so based on those observations that netscape made 10  years ago, has ever kinda like dying, and

they realized that they have to make sure that the web is open

and that, everything is implemented within open standards

because only them can others implement the same standards

and this led to this core mission, of  mozilla, that we wanna get people choice

so mozilla makes firefox so that's very likely when we use firefox

but firefox's even more important for us is that you have choice

you can decide what you want to use,  you don't have to use internet explorer

so this is the history of mozilla, and mozilla in couple of years, it turned the area with a very strong success

so now our 30% of people using the web are using firefox browser

and in many countries, we are the #1 browser amongst others, in european countries

now, compare the web today, it's more than it  was 10 years ago when its journey started

so I am not sure how many of you here have used the really old version of internet explorer, alright, the IE6

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