With Mozilla and Canonical getting involved in the phone space things are starting to get interesting again. I'm glad to see more alternatives to the Android/iPhone paradigm that we have been living in for the past few years. If we could get more devices that are OS agnostic and allow users to choose what they would like on purchase would go a long way to expanding the mobile space for the better.
I'm wondering; both android and ios restrict apps from using the javascript vms (v8 and nitro respectively) because of security concerns (being able to generate code and mark their pages executable). The embedded webkit implementations use JSKit interpreter as far as I know. (Correct me if I'm wong)<p>How does FF OS handle this? I believe if there is absolutely no native code execution involved, it should not be a security concern. Is that so? Is it currently possible to have fast js execution in UIWebView iOS apps?
Given that it's proven to be incredibly difficult to make any money as an Android manufacturer I'm not surprised to see Sony taking a different tack. Question is whether it was a careful considered move or a desperate bid for something new.