I personally work on Marketplace [1], the app store for open web apps [2]. Our properties run client-side apps (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) with a Python/Django API server. Many other options are available depending on your skills and interests:
- If you know C++, for instance, you can contribute to the core layers of Firefox, Firefox OS, and other Mozilla products.
- If you know JavaScript or HTML/CSS, you can contribute to the front-end of Firefox, or to Gaia, the application layer of Firefox OS.
- If you know Java, you can contribute to Firefox Mobile.
- If you know Python, you can contribute to our web services, including Firefox Sync or Persona.
- If you know Make, shell, Perl, or Python, you can contribute to our build system.
- If you know C, you can contribute to a number of low-level and third-party libraries that we use as part of the Mozilla codebase.
Feel free to reach out if you're interested (email in profile), and I'd be happy to either help you find something or put you in touch with somebody who can.
Devtools is also always looking for contributors! We have good first bugs and mentored bugs. Everything is written in web technologies, so if you are already a competent web developer it is fairly easy to start contributing.
Any plans for a Firefox iOS browser? I know UIWebViews use webkit, but I think it'd be pretty cool to have a good Firefox mobile experience on the app store. I primarily use Chrome for iOS, and I think it could be way better.
I develop natively for iOS and would definitely down to help out in any way possible there.
I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS.
Question: how is this any different than the scheme Microsoft instituted in the 90s to artificially keep Office and MSIE superior to alternatives? Wasn't it this same regime which ultimately was ruled as anti-competive?
Ahh okay, I knew Safari was going to be the end all, be all of performant web browsers using strictly native Objective-C (and it uses webkit too I believe). I notice that you're looking for C++ help above, and was thinking that maybe native mixed with C++ could produce a nice user experience that people would crave on iOS.
Haha I'm kind of just spitballing ideas here - I think not having Chrome sync and Safari sync is a good feature of iOS web browsers in a lot of different use cases. Plus a slim, portable Firefox clone could be pretty interesting to duke it out with those two as well as Dolphin and some other web browsers for the platform.
I personally work on Marketplace [1], the app store for open web apps [2]. Our properties run client-side apps (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) with a Python/Django API server. Many other options are available depending on your skills and interests:
- If you know C++, for instance, you can contribute to the core layers of Firefox, Firefox OS, and other Mozilla products.
- If you know JavaScript or HTML/CSS, you can contribute to the front-end of Firefox, or to Gaia, the application layer of Firefox OS.
- If you know Java, you can contribute to Firefox Mobile.
- If you know Python, you can contribute to our web services, including Firefox Sync or Persona.
- If you know Make, shell, Perl, or Python, you can contribute to our build system.
- If you know C, you can contribute to a number of low-level and third-party libraries that we use as part of the Mozilla codebase.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction
http://whatcanidoformozilla.org
Feel free to reach out if you're interested (email in profile), and I'd be happy to either help you find something or put you in touch with somebody who can.
[1] https://marketplace.firefox.com/
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Quickstart/Build/In...