There are plenty of js/html frameworks for mobile. That mission was (and is??) the _promise_ of webOS. So I don't see how you can say "even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears in the process, if web-apps become mainstream it will have succeeded" since it's far from a controlled experiment.
Mozilla always seems to have the same answer to "what if we just started from scratch": which is "let's do it". It's endearing I guess.
In general, I'm curious about the hatred here on HN towards W3C. Sure, standards often move slowly, but it is still the best way to achieve interoperability.
Mozilla always seems to have the same answer to "what if we just started from scratch": which is "let's do it". It's endearing I guess.