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Alex Russell @slightlylate
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For context, the latest Firefox is 61. 48 is even older than the (ancient) ESR (52):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_v…

@KaiOStech is a problem in the making.
I *badly* want to see a competitive web-based OS fit these markets; the fit is excellent, but there's smoke pouring out of this one already. Some questions for @KaiOStech and @KaiHelps :

First, where's the source code?
This looks like a public mirror; so where does development happen? Private HG?:

github.com/kaiostech/geck…
(as an aside, good to see this; it wasn't there last I looked, so steps in the right direction at least)
Second question: what's the roadmap?

B2G *looks* to be getting updates in the @KaiOStech tree:

github.com/kaiostech/geck…

Will these be released to existing users? OTA? When?
Third, what's the plan for APIs? @mozilla seems to have decided that the web doesn't need to compete, and @KaiOStech ships proprietary B2G APIs;

developer.kaiostech.com/api

...but not web APIs like Web Bluetooth or Generic Sensors:

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web…

developers.google.com/web/updates/20…
Lastly, what's the update policy? Will @KaiOStech devices be abandonware (see Android) or will they be good citizens and deliver safe, reliable computing (think CrOS)?
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Every time I see this wikipedia page it once-again blows my mind that Apple is shipping chips in *phones* with 8MB of *L2* cache:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple-des…
To put that in perspective, here's the fastest shipping chip in the Android ecosystem that I'm aware of today: en.wikichip.org/wiki/samsung/e…
It has 2MB of L2 cache and 4MB of L3.

Here's a quick refresher on what that means:

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This is not one of those: webpagetest.org/result/180820_…

Aspire to this ^^^
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When TTFB is slowing you down, you're killing it. Incredible.
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A few months ago I wrote up some of the lessons we've learned the hard way in standards-based feature development. One area I glossed over was the role of "Explainers" (thread!): docs.google.com/document/d/1cJ…
ICYMI, the blog series is here:

"Part 1: The Lay of the Land": infrequently.org/2018/06/effect…
"Part 2: Threading the Needle": infrequently.org/2018/06/effect…
Unlike most product features, standards-track features require (at least) two design documents: one for the public surface area of the feature and another for the implementation of that surface area within a given codebase.

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