Firefox OS 2.0 Developer Preview Gets WebNFC, H.264 Hardware Encode/Decode

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Firefox OS 2.0 Developer Preview Gets WebNFC, H.264 Hardware Encode/Decode

Besides releasing Firefox Developer Edition today, Mozilla also has Firefox OS 2.0 news with making the latest developer preview available for the Flame development phone...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgzNTA

[brosis]

Opposing H264 in browser (still only possible via Flash), while acknowledging WebM after some fight; then adding H264 in hardware and own OS, and no support for hw acceleration for WebM.

Open for business.

[gens]

Opposing H264 in browser (still only possible via Flash), while acknowledging WebM after some fight; then adding H264 in hardware and own OS, and no support for hw acceleration for WebM.

Open for business.

html5 h264 with gstreamer
hardware accelerated with gstreamer1 and tinkering

still vp9 should be a shade better, if it got a encoder as good as x264

[uid313]

Firefox OS is pretty cool, because you develop apps in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
So any web developer already have the knowledge to start developing mobile apps for Firefox OS.

You can get a pretty nice mobile UI with Polymer (from Google, based upon Material Design in Android 5.0) or Ratchet by Twitter (think its inspired by Bootstrap).

The bad thing is that it might may make the platform look fragmented where all apps look, feel, and behave differently.

[Ferdinand]

Opposing H264 in browser (still only possible via Flash), while acknowledging WebM after some fight; then adding H264 in hardware and own OS, and no support for hw acceleration for WebM.

Open for business.

Trying to oppose H264 in the browser with Chrome and Opera. Chrome betraying them. Opera meekly following Chrome. Firefox after years of fighting finally giving up on fighting the whole world.