Mozilla has released the first version of an api release that should help to make to web applications to purchase on the Firefox OS platform. The WebPayment api is entirely open and must pay online via various methods easier.
In a blogposting lists Mozilla on what, in his eyes, the disadvantages of the current betaalsystematiek on the internet. For example, the user often tied to a limited number of payment methods and must be on a lot of websites again and again for example a credit card number to be entered, according to the browserbouwer an unsafe procedure. In addition, many online retailers themselves are responsible for the correct and safe handling of payments. Services such as PayPal would transactions partly to simplify, but hard to integrate with ‘web devices’. With that last refers to Mozilla, for example, on mobile phones that run Firefox OS to run.
To pay via the internet to simplify, Mozilla’s WebPayment api will be developed. The first version of the api, based on javascript, can now by web developers, for example, for the purchase of apps for the Firefox OS platform in the Firefox Marketplace.
The WebPayment api, which, incidentally, also usable for in-app purchases, is still very simple. By means of some javascript commands, navigator.mozPay() is called, a transaction may be initiated. Because the api only serves as a relay can, in principle, each type of payment system can be offered.
Mozilla argues that the WebPayment system is fully integrated into Firefox OS. In the longer term, it is also in the desktop versions of Mozilla browser and Firefox for Android smartphones. In addition to Mozilla within the W3C with other parties to discuss a final standard api for micro-payments.