last minute meeting about mozilla embedding in mountain view – come if you’re in town!

At Mozilla we’ve been doing a lot of work on mobile and one aspect of that work is to make it easier to embed Mozilla into other applications. We’ve been pretty focused on end user features, product and platform in a way that gets our browser into people’s hands in a very direct manner. But in the mobile world, very often people are looking for more than just a browser and we need to make sure that we have excellent support for that use case as well.

On Friday a pile of people will all be in San Francisco who care about embedding Mozilla. Turns out that me, Behdad, Dave Camp, Vlad and Christian will all be around in the same city at the same time and we’re going to spend Friday afternoon looking at embedding apis. I hope that out of this we’ll at least have some ideas about what’s already out there in terms of interfaces and functionality and we’ll come up with a laundry list of possible resources. The goal here will be to just start getting ideas and resources together, not to make decisions on what we’re doing. The community that we need to build needs to be much larger than just this subset of people and that will be reflected in our strategy for determining what these APIs look like.

If you want to join us on Friday afternoon, drop me a line and let me know. We’ll be hanging out at the Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View, discussing first steps and looking at existing APIs. I’ll write something up and send it out once we’re done to the .embedding and .mobile lists.