The github page for zefanja shows 6 years of aging. https://github.com/zefanja/biblez-ng
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:16 AM David Haslam <dfh...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Interesting observations, Peter. > > It was way back in December 2013. I searched the archives for FirefoxOS > (without the space). > > In the email thread, Stephan mentioned what now redirects to this > > https://zefanja.github.io/biblez-ng/app/ > > The Module Manager is now very slow. > It never completes the egg-timing. Abandon-ware??? > > The last email from Stephan was dated Jun 26, 2017 > Subject: CORS API > and was in response to Simon Biggs, who made only a fleeting appearance in > the mailing list in December 2016 and shortly after that. > > Best regards, > > David > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Friday, 26 March 2021 09:57, ref...@gmx.net <ref...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Years ago we had a couple of people here on the list who worked on HTML > 5 apps for , I think Firefox OS. Firefox Os was , unsurprisingly, a Linux > system, which equally unsurprisingly went nowhere, or so it seemed. > > > > Recently I stumbled over the fact that Firefox has actually made a > resurgence in form of KaiOS, which apparently is making huge inroads in > both India and Africa. In India it is the second system, at around 11% , > rising, of the market acc Wikipedia and Android (at 79%, falling). In Sub > Saharan Africa it is taking over the market of J2ME phones (where we had an > app for) > > > > The current top phone for that market is called the Nokia 8210 or so > which goes on Amazon for around £49. It can get jailbroken and can run a > non-spyware version of KaiOS called GerdaOS. 256mb RAM and 4Gb ROM is the > spec of that. But KaiOS is open to app submissions and actively encourages > this. Whatsapp etc e.g. are on that. So jailbreaking might actually not be > necessary other than to allow initial sideloading of an app. > > > > Questions: > > > > Are those who worked on Firefox OS still active here on the list? > > > > Could Bishop run on a system like this? > > > > What other HTML5 based apps did we have over the years passing by here? > There were a few, I think, also something for another phone operating > system which was promising but got nowhere. SlideOs or some such. > > > > Peter > > > > Sent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird > autocorrects. > > > > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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