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==Leveraging the strengths of Mozilla and Firefox== | ==Leveraging the strengths of Mozilla and Firefox== | ||
Just as they did with Firefox on the desktop, people will need compelling reasons to go out of their way to install Fennec, when their phones already have a browser or two on them already. (Don't take this to mean that we won't attempt to work with manufacturers and carriers to get pre-installed on devices, but let's assume that we're mainly installed by users themselves.) | |||
We have unique assets that we can leverage to deliver on our key themes and to achieve distribution of Fennec. For example: | |||
* We can improve the usefulness of Fennec for each desktop Firefox user, especially if we adopt an online "bridge" to enable a mobile user to easily access bookmarks, history, form-fill data, and other browser metadata from his desktop PC. | |||
* We can take advantage of our desktop footprint to make Firefox users aware of Fennec, and make it easy for them to send an installer (or installer link) to their devices | |||
* We can use our position of authority in the realm of Web standards to play a key role in defining and driving standards that would benefit the mobile Web as a whole, for example, a standard approach to making location information accessible in the DOM with appropriate security; gaining broader acceptance of microformats acceptance and broad implementation on phones of links that can initiate phone calls; and many more | |||
* We can leverage our position as the preferred browser of developers by making it a natural extension of their current development process to develop, test and debug Web apps for mobile devices | |||
Fennec will provide users and developers with a better experience by leveraging our unique technology, developer community and user community. | |||