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| DATE | 2015-03-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Expanding Mozilla Tech
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To me, this is a problem not a solution
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2610808/web-browsers/3-ways-brendan-eich-can-move-mozilla-beyond-browsers.html
On Monday, Mozilla's co-founder Brendan Eich
,
also known as the inventor of JavaScript, stepped up to the top slot at
the company as its new CEO
,
filling the void left by Gary Kovacs.
In some ways, it was inevitable. Eich has been one of Mozilla's most
visible figures, especially in his efforts to stump for the various
technologies Mozilla has introduced. It's been clear for a long time
that Eich isn't content to simply make Mozilla synonymous with Firefox.
His ambitions range far wider.
Firefox is still a major part of the Web experience, even if the browser
has lost a good deal of its market share to Google Chrome. Mozilla's
plans for Firefox haven't stood still either: A new user interface (not
the one for Windows 8!) and a new multiprocess browser engine for
Firefox, written in Mozilla's own Rust language, are on the way. Plus,
Firefox has been pushed as a cutting-edge browser environment, thanks to
its support for technologies like ASM.js.
All this combined with comments by Eich himself in an interview at CNet
hint at how Mozilla would become a full-blown platform and service
provider, one where the end-user would be that more an owner and steward
of their data and their privacy. Here are three key ways Mozilla can
develop further under Eich:
*Mozilla as a software technology company, not just as a browser
company. *Rust and ASM.js are two of the biggest projects Mozilla has
going in this department. The former is again being used to create a new
rendering engine; the latter has enabled JavaScript to have software as
complex as the Unreal Engine run in-browser
.
Another freshly minted project from Mozilla's labs, MozDef
, is a toolkit for responding
quickly to and coordinating defenses against security incidents and
exploits, and it hints at how Mozilla is encouraging a diversity of
project types under its umbrella.
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