Mozilla Weave: Integrating Services into the Browser

A deep dive into Mozilla Weave, an experiment to bring rich and personalized experiences across the web to users.

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1. Integrating Services with the Browser Anant Narayanan 3 October 2009 EU MozCamp Sunday, October 4, 2009
2. Mozilla Weave enables you to have incredibly rich and personalized experiences across the web Sunday, October 4, 2009
3. Why •As more things move into the cloud, we need to make sure things stay open and transparent •We need to be more than just client-side software! •In line with the Labs theme of innovating in spaces which might become really important & popular in the future Sunday, October 4, 2009
4. How Sunday, October 4, 2009
5. Our Focus Sync Cryptography Cloud Services Sunday, October 4, 2009
6. The Weave Sync Add-on •0.7 released couple of days ago •Really starting to ramp up to a beta-quality release •Great new UI (about:weave) •A whole bunch of performance improvements and the usual slew of bug fixes •Focus on Fennec Integration Sunday, October 4, 2009
7. The Nitty-Gritty •Incremental Sync •Scaling clusters •HTML/CSS/JS UI •Open APIs and self hosted servers •(third party clients, anyone?) Sunday, October 4, 2009
8. Use Cases •Backup •Get up and Go •Ubiquity of your data (No pun intended) •Initial target data types: •History, Passwords, Bookmarks Preferences •Tabs, Form History Sunday, October 4, 2009
9. Demo Time Sunday, October 4, 2009
10. Let’s talk Add Ons API Sync What is interesting to you? Sunday, October 4, 2009
11. Long term Goals Sharing Notifications Identity Sunday, October 4, 2009
12. The Overall Picture Crypto Messaging Firefox Fennec Others? Identity Sync Sharing Services 3rd Party Mashups Sunday, October 4, 2009
13. Questions, Comments, Suggestions? http://labs.mozilla.com/weave http://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Weave #labs on irc.mozilla.org anant@mozilla.com We’d love to hear from you! Sunday, October 4, 2009