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Mozilla Labs prepares its own web app store

Elena Santos

Elena Santos

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Mozilla Labs have announced their latest experiment, Open Web Apps. According to Mozilla, this new type of application sits somewhere between traditional desktop software and standard online tools, providing the user with the best features of both worlds: they’re as handy and fully interactive as desktop apps, but also feed on Web technologies like HTML, Javascript and CSS.

Open Web Apps

The Open Web Apps can be used on both desktop and mobile environments, have a free or paid license, work on any browser and can be freely distributed by developers directly to users, or through other online stores – maybe a reference to the recently announced Mac App Store?

Mozilla Labs are currently working on all the key elements in the main infrastructure to make Open Web Apps available as soon as possible, but you can already sneak a look at the experiment with the App Store demo.The demo includes three simple test web apps you can download to see how the whole system works. And if you want to know more about Mozilla’s Open Web Apps project, check out this video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBFVrmyald4[/youtube]

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