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The "Open Web Applications" 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 =
[https://apps.mozillalabs.com/ Apps site] - an overview of the technology ideas
[https://apps.mozillalabs.com/gallery/ UX Gallery] - A user experience gallery with conceptual mockups
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/OpenWebApps MDN docs] - MDN page with documentation
= 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 [http://github.com/openwebapps/openwebapps-core] github.com/openwebapps/openwebapps-core].
= Unpublished docs (in progress) =
[http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/temp/boardmeeting/apps.html 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: =
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps 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.
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-directory openwebapps-directory repo] - a reference implementation of a web app directory
== 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 [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol Verified Email Protocol] developed in the Identity project.
== explorations of the "service integration" idea: ==
[http://www.open-mike.org/entry/using-web-applications-for-service-discovery Using Web Applications for Service Discovery] - blog post by mhanson on how apps can power service integration
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-aboutme openwebapps-aboutme repo] - an app that just provides a "personal profile" service
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-flickr-connector openwebapps-flickr-connector repo] - an app that connects to Flickr for photo save and retrieval
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-photosite-connector openwebapps-photosite-connector repo] - a more generic app that connects to multiple photosites for save and retrieve
= Published docs =
[https://apps.mozillalabs.com/ Apps site] - an overview of the technology ideas
[https://apps.mozillalabs.com/gallery/ UX Gallery] - A user experience gallery with conceptual mockups
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/OpenWebApps MDN docs] - MDN page with documentation
= 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 [http://github.com/openwebapps/openwebapps-core] github.com/openwebapps/openwebapps-core].
= Unpublished docs (in progress) =
[http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/temp/boardmeeting/apps.html 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: =
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps 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.
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-directory openwebapps-directory repo] - a reference implementation of a web app directory
== 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 [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol Verified Email Protocol] developed in the Identity project.
== explorations of the "service integration" idea: ==
[http://www.open-mike.org/entry/using-web-applications-for-service-discovery Using Web Applications for Service Discovery] - blog post by mhanson on how apps can power service integration
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-aboutme openwebapps-aboutme repo] - an app that just provides a "personal profile" service
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-flickr-connector openwebapps-flickr-connector repo] - an app that connects to Flickr for photo save and retrieval
[https://github.com/mozilla/openwebapps-photosite-connector openwebapps-photosite-connector repo] - a more generic app that connects to multiple photosites for save and retrieve
