Mozilla Weave Sync API released! Plus a number of early prototypes and sample code.
by George T on Feb 7 2010 at 12:45 
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A couple of days ago, Mozilla Labs released new Weave Sync APIs and resources for developers. If you have no idea what Weave is you should check it out here. Weave aims to seamlessly bridge your desktop and mobile Firefox experiences, by syncing bookmarks, saved passwords, browsing history, and open browser tabs across your platforms. So, in short you can leave your home computer and access your, lets say, browsing history via your mobile phone.
For the time being such capabilities existed in the iPhone but only limited to the bookmark syncing via MobileMe features or via apps like Instapaper.
There is also Google Web History which merged with Google Bookmarks last summer and now has some great features like viewing your web activity, searching the full text of pages you’ve visited, getting personalized search results and more. However these features are only available if you install the latest Google Toolbar and there is no immediate access via your mobile phone.
So, Weave is here to change this. You don’t have to install any toolbar and now that there is an API out there the possibilities are numerous. Mozilla already released a number of early prototypes and sample code that have been developed alongside the Weave APIs including a web-based Weave client, an iPhone Weave client, a commandline Weave client and a WebOS Weave client.
Now that Weave API is out I would love to see a Weave client for my Android phone along with some import/export features in Weave or even better some Ubiquity commands to interact with the Weave.
By the way, does anyone know when the latest Ubiquity version will be available for Firefox 3.6?
tags: api, bookmarks, code, firefox, google bookmarks, history, iphone, mobile, mobileme, mozilla, password, prototype, sample, sync, tabs, ubiquity, weave, webosshort url: http://bit.ly/99Z74t
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Great news, I thought Weave was only for FF, but being available as an API, just wonderful… Looking forward for the Android app, or even better the integration with the android web browser! Hurray! :)
About the ubiquity, a solution till the Mozilla team gets ubiquity on it’s hands again. http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla/topics/when_will_ubiquity_support_firefox_3_6b4