At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Mozilla announced that its Mozilla Marketplace is now open for developer app submissions.
The
Mozilla
Marketplace is open for business.
Well, its at
least open for app submissions from developers. In a
Feb.
28 blog post, Joe Stagner, senior program manager for development
technologies and community at Mozilla, said developers using HTML, CSS and
JavaScript can develop Web-based apps for using one code base for all popular
devices.
Now,
developers can build apps and submit them to the Mozilla Marketplace so that
when the consumer side of the marketplace launches later this year, your apps
will be listed and consumers will be able to begin installing and using your
apps from the first day of business, Stagner said.
Stagner noted
that developers and organizations large and small have expressed interested in
building apps for the Mozilla Marketplace. These apps are built using
HTML5 for app structure;
CSS3 for layout, visual aesthetics and visual behaviors; and JavaScript for
logical implementation, he said. This combination of the latest
standards-based Web development technologies is enjoying unprecedented
popularity and is changing the way we build both Websites and apps.
Mozilla is
focused on supporting mobile apps that will run across all modern HTML5-capable
Web browsers.
The Mozilla
Web Apps platform will feature the
Mozilla Marketplace, the first operating system- and device-independent
market for apps based on open Web technologies like HTML5, JavaScript and
CSS;
new
Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be
submitted to the W3C for standardization;
and
a new
identity system for the Web that puts users in control of their content,
tying apps to the user and not the device or platform.
On the
Marketplace side, weve been working on identity integration with
Persona
[
BrowserID], Stagner said. Were also
developing
payments,
app sync, backup and recovery, as well as an outstanding online app discovery
and acquisition experience, so that both consumers and developers can easily
get what they want from the Marketplace experience, on the front side or on the
back end.
Developers
should follow these links to get started building their apps
and then submit them to the
Mozilla Marketplace:
Apps on MDN:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/apps
Mozilla Apps
Wiki:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Apps
HTML5 Docs:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5
Mozilla
Persona:
https://browserid.org/
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