{"id":2195,"date":"2011-08-23T23:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2011-08-23T23:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:01:02","slug":"mozilla-webapi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/mozilla-webapi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla WebAPI."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">T<\/span>he fundamental difference between web technologies and native technologies is not performance ((It&#8217;s not possible to replicate native performance now because of the nature of scripted languages, but there will come a point soon where for all but the most intensive applications the difference is negligible.)), it&#8217;s API access. Mozilla is making a valiant effort to combat that by introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2011\/08\/introducing-webapi\/\">WebAPI<\/a>, a way for the browser to access basic device capabilities like the address book, the camera, and more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess whether Apple and Google will be interested in playing along. Should Mozilla flesh out these API standards, however, there&#8217;s no reason to think they wouldn&#8217;t. To this point, both companies have been eager to advance the state of the web; Google naturally benefiting from increased web usage and historically pushing boundaries with Chrome, Apple understanding the critical role the web plays in its customers lives and consequently incubating webkit \/ Safari.<\/p>\n<p>The web is a powerful thing, and Mozilla&#8217;s interests are 100% aligned with promoting an open, unencumbered web available from all devices. That&#8217;s a position we&#8217;re happy to support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundamental difference between web technologies and native technologies is not performance ((It&#8217;s not possible to replicate native performance now because of the nature of scripted languages, but there will come a point soon where for all but the most intensive applications the difference is negligible.)), it&#8217;s API access. Mozilla is making a valiant effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[18,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}