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DEPRECATED - Gaia is a HTML5-based Phone UI for the Boot 2 Gecko Project. NOTE: For details of what branches are used for what releases, see

22 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2012-09-26 · latest 2016-12-31

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    Ask HN: What might be the future of open-source offline-first email apps?
    story by mwcampbell · 2016-12-31 · 18 comments
  2. Maybe re-package the Firefox OS Mail Client? ;) It's "low resource" ;) -> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/email
    comment by SunboX · 2015-12-11 · in Firefox OS Pivot to Connected Devices
  3. No Frameworks used, just "modern" JavaScript: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia Have learned some things by reading the code.
    comment by SunboX · 2015-07-24 · in Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?
  4. …that is displayed is html/js/css. What you call "framework" here is part of the system app ( https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/system ). It's a fairly large app, but it's where a lot of the fun stuff is!
    comment by fabrice_d · 2015-03-01 · in Mozilla to open first-world front in Firefox OS war
  5. Firefox OS has a dedicated Email app which supports multiple email accounts and offline mode. https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/email https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia-email-libs-and-more What exactly do you mean by…
    comment by e15ctr0n · 2015-02-28 · in Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow
  6. Rather Firefox OS Browser. It's made of only HTML & JS & CSS: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/browser
    comment by niutech · 2014-07-22 · in Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
  7. …JS based RISC emulator¹ or the Firefox OS web browser app²? [1] http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/ [2] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/browser
    comment by Excavator · 2014-07-10 · in Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
  8. …But I'd like to know if enyo apps can run on fxos. The UI of the phone itself (called gaia, https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/ ) is pretty much framework-less. webOS didn't make it as a platform for various reasons: lack of devices, no…
    comment by fabrice_d · 2014-05-27 · in Ask HN: What makes Firefox OS better than webOS?
  9. #1 https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia feel free to work on it. Any contribution will be appreciated. 2# this is not marketed as a substitute to iPhone or even Android. It's mean for people that can't afford high end phones. People that if…
    comment by duiker101 · 2014-03-02 · in Firefox OS 1.3
  10. …OS on top of IndexedDB that all the apps use (localStorage is as close to banned as it can be) ( https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/js/as... ) However thats fine when you are building your own apps, but I meant as a…
    comment by daleharvey · 2013-09-05 · in A new breed of Chrome Apps
  11. …heavily on supporting hi-dpi devices [1]. [1]: The branch where the hi-dpi work is happening https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/v1.1.0hd
    comment by padenot · 2013-07-11 · in Verizon backs Ubuntu smartphone
  12. …considering that the total number of contributors on the Firefox OS frontend is currently 249 ( https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia ). No clue on which part they're gonna put these people on.
    comment by janjongboom · 2013-06-21 · in Foxconn to hire 3,000 to support Firefox OS and software development
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    Firefox OS: System wide orientation lock in 45LOC
    story by janjongboom · 2013-05-31 · 21 comments
  14. …should give you all touches etc. also on iOS. FYI: This app comes with a gesture detector (source: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/js/ge... ) as well that can handle swipes, pans, multi-finger transforms.
    comment by janjongboom · 2013-05-08 · in AngularJS powered mobile boilerplate app that also does offline out of the box
  15. …of sites we have to send Android like user agents to so we are served mobile friendly content: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/build/ua-ove... Its a sad situation.
    comment by daleharvey · 2013-03-25 · in Testers Say IE11 Includes 'Like Gecko' in User Agent String
  16. …have parts right now. > 2) They use -moz prefixes in their CSS but don't include the other vendors: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/calenda... . Sounds like a bug, filing an issue would be appreciated I am guessing.
    comment by azakai · 2013-03-13 · in Firefox OS Simulator – previewing version 3.0
  17. …to implement until ES6. 2) They use -moz prefixes in their CSS but don't include the other vendors: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/calenda...
    comment by MatthewPhillips · 2013-03-13 · in Firefox OS Simulator – previewing version 3.0
  18. > Except the browser. Actually, Firefox on FirefoxOS is written in HTML + JS. Here's the source: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/tree/master/apps/browser Sure, the HTML + JS runtime on FirefoxOS is Gecko, but that's an implementation…
    comment by callahad · 2013-03-13 · in Firefox OS Simulator – previewing version 3.0
  19. Also, yes, it works, see https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/music/i... for instance. This app imports a bunch of code from /shared. Great for code sharing.
    comment by padenot · 2013-01-27 · in Building Firefox OS
  20. …this stylesheet to your app and get all of the associated styles, but you can go here and get them: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/style...
    comment by ndesaulniers · 2013-01-27 · in Building Firefox OS
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    Create stack traces for unhandled JavaScript Exceptions in all major Browsers
    story by SunboX · 2013-01-14 · 1 comment
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    Ask HN: What is your experience with BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 & Firefox OS?
    story by selvan · 2012-09-26 · 0 comments