Firefox OS & Open Standards

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Firefox OS runs the entire phone UI with HTML5/CSS/JavaScript atop a small Linux kernel so apps are iframes inside Gonk, Gecko, Gaia, aiming to ship affordable smartphones (launch price as low as $69 in Spain). Installable apps require a JSON manifest; developers choose hosted or packaged apps. Platform already exposes 28 new APIs (battery, vibration, device storage, system XHR, web activities), offers a Firefox simulator extension, a marketplace, operator billing, and had ~300 external contributors to the 1.0 release.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 19:28Security Levels
3. 23:55SCREEN ORIENTATION API
4. 28:32AMBIENT LIGHT EVENTS
5. 41:46FIREFOX OS BOILERPLATE APP

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