Mozilla: Firefox Mobile Will Solve Content Problems

December 18, 2009 · No CommentsComments Feed

Native apps for pushing Web content are as old as smartphones, but Web apps are now exploding. Mozilla hopes Firefox Mobile will help smaller innovators.

Jay Sullivan, vice president of mobile at Mozilla, recently told PC Pro that the Firefox Mobile browser on Nokia's N900 will be released for Android and Windows Mobile next year. With improved Javascript engines, Mozilla hopes that mobile content developers will return to the Web and mobile browsers for delivering mobile content, rather than re-packaging it in multiple Web apps across a range of different mobile platforms.

Opera and their Mini browser are among the forces that are trying to solve some of those content issues for mobile phones and smartphones as we speak.

We see what Jay Sullivan is talking about though, as developing Web apps for mobile devices might be about to become as "corporate" as native app development. Earlier, people used to "hang out" on the Web in front of their computer, but now more and more people are spending time on mobile apps out in the free. That'll make it harder for smaller innovators to succeed, says Jay Sullivan, since it requires one to invest heavily in development costs at an entirely different level than what's the case with the desktop Web.

Check out the full interview with Mozilla's Jay Sullivan here.