• Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Firefox did it like 10 years ago. I think it’s still going around under a different name in very low tier smart phones.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You’re likely thinking KaiOS. They are still contributing what is required under MPL-2.0 but the rest is proprietary. KaiOS 3.x finally got off of a browser from 2016 as the base, but very few have upgraded their apps to be compatible (the tweaks were minor) & others have used it as a reminder that they were still ‘supporting’ a platform like whoever is maintaining or using that WhatsApp thing for chat.

      There’s also Capyloon built from B2G, but it’s still early on & is targeting touch phones, instead of feature phones.

      It would be nice to see it around IMO since it’d just be another enhancement to progressive web applications & JavaScript is a better target than Java or Swift.