That would be awesome if it actually became a mainstream mobile OS.
Otoh, what about security here? Having JS from a web site dial the phone or taking pics? How will they make sure that lazy I-don't-read-popups-but-just-click-okay users will not get pwned?
Dialing the phone and taking a picture work no differently than they currently do on iOS/Android - your app simply calls the device's native functions and then the OS takes over the operation. And once the operation is complete/cancelled, focus can return to your app if you set the proper callbacks.
Potential security concerns would be akin to the Chrome-extension snoop and inject issue where a random app or web-page could potentially try to read/write the data of other apps if the security model isn't setup right. But these are problems fixable in the short-term. On the plus side, as the phone owner, I might be able to redesign the OS dialer by changing some CSS and finally have a phone pad that goes 7-8-9/4-5-6/1-2-3 like a num-pad instead of 1-2-3/4-5-6/7-8-9.
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That would be awesome if it actually became a mainstream mobile OS.
Otoh, what about security here? Having JS from a web site dial the phone or taking pics? How will they make sure that lazy I-don't-read-popups-but-just-click-okay users will not get pwned?
Dialing the phone and taking a picture work no differently than they currently do on iOS/Android - your app simply calls the device's native functions and then the OS takes over the operation. And once the operation is complete/cancelled, focus can return to your app if you set the proper callbacks.
Potential security concerns would be akin to the Chrome-extension snoop and inject issue where a random app or web-page could potentially try to read/write the data of other apps if the security model isn't setup right. But these are problems fixable in the short-term. On the plus side, as the phone owner, I might be able to redesign the OS dialer by changing some CSS and finally have a phone pad that goes 7-8-9/4-5-6/1-2-3 like a num-pad instead of 1-2-3/4-5-6/7-8-9.