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Wow, it looks like a really slick OS. I think it'll be neat seeing web-apps as first class citizens - it never made sense to me why we have to use Objective-C or Java just to make some UI or whatever.


Somewhere, a former Palm webOS engineer is reading your comment and crying.


And you can even test your FirefoxOS apps with the Selenium WebDriver API!

Mozilla's talk about testing FirefoxOS, at the Google Test Automation Conference last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41eqcmC2Dk

Writeup: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/548910/9c5d6bd1bd69f34c/

Demo of automated UI test using Appium to test an app on the FirefoxOS simulator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE#t=34m30s


Having to deal ludicrously overcomplicated environments is what's kept me from writing apps for my own use for my Android phone. I recently took to the decidedly suboptimal choice (on Android) of "simply" writing js/html apps with localstorage as a workaround, so an OS that is designed to actually make apps written that way a first class citizen will be awesome.




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