Mobile: Today and Beyond Stuart Parmenter, Director of Mobile
Agenda About Mozilla Where we are today Mozilla Firefox 4 HTML5: New capabilities for the Web Where we are going
Mozilla: Who We Are A global community and nonprofit organization Firefox answers to no one but you! More than 450 million users worldwide Shaping future of the Web for the public good
Mobile landscape First generation “mobile web” was bad, hard to innovate Real browsers on mobile are finally emerging Today’s hardware and networks are ready for the web Mozilla’s mission of openness and innovation matters here Mobile is still in infancy, constantly changing
Where are we today? Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo was released at the end of March
Firefox 4 Firefox on Android! Streamlined new user interface Desktop and mobile, in perfect sync Customize - make Firefox your own Fast!
Full screen dedicated to Web Minimal typing Swipe, tap, pinch Sleek User Interface
Your Firefox, Wherever You Go Awesome Screen Firefox Sync Dynamic Start Page Firefox Home
Your Firefox, Wherever You Go Awesome Screen Firefox Sync Dynamic Start Page Firefox Home
Your Firefox, Wherever You Go Awesome Screen Firefox Sync Dynamic Start Page Firefox Home
Your Firefox, Wherever You Go Firefox Sync Awesome Screen Dynamic Start Page Firefox Home
Features Tabbed browsing Bookmarks Fit to Zoom Find in Page Save to PDF, Save for Later Sharing Customize search engine
Features Tabbed browsing Bookmarks Fit to Zoom Find in Page Save to PDF, Save for Later Sharing Customize search engine
Features Tabbed browsing Bookmarks Fit to Zoom Find in Page Save to PDF, Save for Later Sharing Customize search engine double-tap
Features Tabbed browsing Bookmarks Fit to Zoom Find in Page Save to PDF, Save for Later Sharing Customize search engine
Most Customizable Add-ons Teach your browser new tricks!
Most Customizable Personalization with Personas
Power of the Web
Open Web The web is based on open standards HTML CSS DOM JavaScript The web is not controlled by a single vendor
One Web There is no “mobile web” The web that works on your desktop should work on your mobile device
Powered by Gecko One engine, shared among desktop Firefox and mobile Firefox Actively maintained on Windows, Mac, Linux (GTK+ and Qt) and Android Leading Web compatibility Optimized for ARM processors Just-in-time JavaScript compiler HTML5
Multi-core Dual core phones available now, quad later this year How can we take advantage of these? Electrolysis Out of process plugins Moving things off main thread: video, HTML5 parsing, I/O JS garbage collection Graphics compositing 22
HTML5 Enables Amazing Web Apps
Graphics Downloadable Fonts
Device APIs Geolocation Orientation Notifications Camera
Fast!
Where are we going? Rapid Releases going forward Firefox 4 is out now Firefox 5 will be out by end of June
Focus on Applications What is needed to build a new class of applications on the web? Games such as Angry Birds? Skype?
Hardware Acceleration Take advantage of graphics hardware now present in phones Fast video rendering YUV->RGB conversion and scaling in hardware Fast and smooth scrolling Optimized plugin rendering 29
More Multimedia WebGL Flash support
Not Just Phones - Tablets
Firefox Home
The End Thank you for your time! I would love to hear more about mobile in China. Please send me !