Apps

The Open Web apps 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, Apps in the Cloud

• What: Engineering and UX discussions for everything other than the Marketplace
• When: Tuesdays 9:00 - 10:00AM Pacific
• Where: the Mozilla Apps Vidyo room
  • In Mountain View: 4K - Kung Fu
  • In San Francisco: 7N - Noise Pop
• 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: "Warp Core" - 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Unpublished docs (in progress)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

testing the OWA framework:

How to set up and run tests

Project Plans

Market Place Plan

Parking Lot - Things to Do

• write design guidelines for making a killer app
• create sdk app
• write app review guidelines
• reframe what an app is so devs are confident in their
• design a "get it on the Mozilla Marketplace" button
• design visual element on icon to show that these apps run everywhere