Mozilla ‘Weaver’ for innovative online experiences
The Web continues to evolve at a rapid pace and more of our core functions and actions move online. To enhance the online experience, Mozilla Labs has just launched a brand new online service ‘Weave’.
The firm believes that Web browsers such as Firefox can and need to do more for brokering rich experiences even while increasing users’ control over their data & personal information.
The idea behind Weave is putting in sync personal information like bookmarks, passwords etc with the user’s Mozilla account via Firefox.
‘Weave’ will give an opportunity to developers for building ‘innovative online experiences’. The way Mozilla enables innovation by making Firefox open on several levels, it aims to do exactly the same with Weave project by developing an open extensible framework for purpose of services integration.
One crucial area for exploration is the effective blending of the Web and the desktop through deeper integration of the browser and various online services.
According to Chris Beard, the Mozilla Labs GM, the broad goals of Weave are:
• Providing a basic set of optional Mozilla hosted online services.
• Ensuring that it gets easy for users to set up their own services with help of freely available open standards based tools.
• Providing people with the ability to control, customise their online experience. This includes whether & how their personal data should be shared with others.
The idea is to respect privacy; to leverage prevalent open standards & propose new ones as required, and build an extensible architecture such as Firefox.
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