Facebook’s ‘Project Spartan’ HTML5-based client revealed

By on Sep 30, 2011 at 1:30 AM
mobile September 30, 2011

When Facebook announced a revamped mobile page in April, its lead mobile exec Eric Tseng said the social network would focus on using the HTML5 standard for future updates instead of updating individual applications for each mobile operating system. “Project Spartan” is the fruit of those labors, reports claim, and it will be the social network’s attempt to the spill its games and applications into the mobile space. Images and information on Project Spartan were recently posted on a Facebook developer page before being pulled. Thankfully TechCrunch grabbed several of the images and information from the site before it was taken down. The leaked photos clearly display a panel loaded with Facebook Pages, mobile apps and events being accessed from an iPhone’s Safari browser. There also appears to be a notifications component. Facebook will officially announce the platform sometime next week, TechCrunch said. Read on a few additional photos of Project Spartan.

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  • Anonymous

    How about working on your crappy smart phone apps. Fix the stuff you have before you start working on something else. Mark is such a genius but he fails to see the simplest flaws in front of him.

    • http://profiles.google.com/djblois Daniel Blois

      I guess you did not read the article – it clearly says, ” Eric Tseng said the social network would focus on using the HTML5 standard for future updates instead of updating individual applications for each mobile operating system.” 

      • Anonymous

        Most mobile browsers don’t have access to the file system. I use the Facebook web app on my ipohone vs the phone app, except when I want to upload a pic/video. So for a while, the actual app will still be important and need updating.

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  • RIMTastic

    It’s certainly interesting. It could change the landscape for app stores if other developers start using HTML5…and running things through a mobile browser.

  • Anonymous

    I hate all these guys going to HTML 5. It makes Apple look right by supporting it and as a clear attack on flash wonder. The more people adopt HTML 5 the less we need flash. And we need flash to differentiate ourselves from evil Apple.

    • Anonymous

      So sad… So.. Sad…

    • Anonymous

      The sad part about your comment is that Apple IS right, at least as far as Mac OS X and iOS is concerned.  In that frame of mind, Flash is not enough of an advantageous differentiation to anyone except for content distributors that desire its protections against direct piracy.  Most of them that do provide material on iOS are protecting their content being pushed to the iPhone by distributing through the App Store or iTunes, diluting Flash’s necessity.  On the browser front, at least on Apple’s operating systems, HTML5 is less of a resource killer in Safari/Chrome/Firefox and likewise in Mobile Safari, With increased effort in HTML5 by web developers, Flash won’t be needed to feed ads, nor will it be needed as time goes by to push HTML5 optimized video, which will mostly be used mainly non-commercial material (e.g. YouTube videos) unless content publishers can figure HTML5 out, like ESPN has on its iPad optimized page where HTML5 optimized video will play in the browser.  HTML5 will continue to struggle with efficiency on Windows, though.  It’s got too much to work through with the inefficient use of CPU, GPU and RAM by Windows Vista/7.

    • Anonymous

      Trust me The Evil Empire has a lot going on that differentiates itself from crApple.  Just for starters it sucks twice as bad as crApple it also was led by a creepy looking rat man called Schmidt it can’t lie as good as crApple it can’t produce good social network based web content etc etc etc. I could list things all day long if I wanted to.

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