GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery. Gains Global Support For a Firefox Mobile OS. • First devices featuring Firefox OS to be manufactured by TCL Communication Technology (Alcatel) and ZTE• Leading global network operators back initiative, including Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor Industry support is growing behind Mozilla’s plans to launch a new fully open mobile ecosystem based on HTML5.
The operating system, which Mozilla today confirmed will use its Firefox brand, will power the launch of smartphones built entirely to open Web standards, where all of the device’s capabilities can be developed as HTML5 applications. Mapping to key Firefox footprints around the globe, leading operators Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor are backing the open Firefox OS as an exciting new entrant to the smartphone marketplace.
Firefox OS. History[edit] Firefox OS was publicly demonstrated in February 2012, on Android-compatible smartphones.[15][16] By December 16, 2014, fourteen operators in 28 countries throughout the world offered Firefox OS phones.[17] In January 2016 Mozilla announced that Firefox OS would power Panasonic's UHD TVs (as previously announced Firefox OS "would pivot to connected devices").[21] In September 2016 Mozilla announced that work on Firefox OS had ceased, and that all B2G-related code would be removed from mozilla-central.[22] Project inception and roll-out[edit] Commencement of project[edit] This led to much blog coverage.[23][24] According to Ars Technica, "Mozilla says that B2G is motivated by a desire to demonstrate that the standards-based open Web has the potential to be a competitive alternative to the existing single-vendor application development stacks offered by the dominant mobile operating systems.
Graphical User Interface Gallery. On these pages you will find many screen shots of various desktop computer Graphical User Interfaces and operating systems.
Many different people have had different ideas of how a GUI should work and these screen shots show many of the more popular ones. Why, oh why does everything take so long to get done? Finally a few new additions, however I do not feel there is an incredible amount to add. "Modern" interfaces, that we are just supposed to put up with, are such a cesspool of abusive mis-features, they all deserve to disappear from history - with fire. New: Xerox Cedar "Viewers Window Package" - Another research GUI from Xerox Parc that looks suspiciously like Microsoft Windows 1.0.