Mobile: Today and Beyond Stuart Parmenter, Director of Mobile stuart@mozilla.com.

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Mobile: Today and BeyondStuart Parmenter, Director of Mobilestuart@mozilla.com

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

•Awesome Screen

• Firefox Sync

• Firefox Home

•Awesome Screen

• Firefox Sync

• Firefox Home

• Firefox Sync

•Awesome Screen

• Firefox Home

Features•Tabbed browsing

•Bookmarks

• Fit to Zoom

• Find in Page

•Save to PDF, Save for Later

•Sharing

•Customize search engine

•Bookmarks

• Fit to Zoom

• Find in Page

•Sharing

•Bookmarks

• Fit to Zoom

• Find in Page

•Sharing

double-tap

•Bookmarks

• Fit to Zoom

• Find in Page

•Sharing

Most Customizable

•Add-onsTeach your browser new tricks!

Most Customizable

•Personalizationwith 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

HTML5 Enables Amazing Web Apps

Graphics

•<canvas>

•<svg>

•Downloadable Fonts

Device APIs• Geolocation

• Orientation

• Notifications

• Camera

Fast!V

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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

More Multimedia•WebGL

•<video>

•<audio>

• 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 email!

• stuart@mozilla.com

Mobile: Today and Beyond Stuart Parmenter, Director of Mobile stuart@mozilla.com.

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