The Mobile Browser delivers web content to the user the way it was intended. With capable graphics hardware and screen dimensions from 800x480 to 1024x600 (device-dependent), viewing the web can be almost as good as on the PC and a lot more mobile.
Technical Details
Overview
The Mobile Browser is Mozilla-based and we are just starting development on it. After multiple discussions with different Mozilla foundation engineers, regarding the goals of the project and the hardware and system characterstics of MID devices, we’ve selected a recent version (2.0.0.4) of the Mozilla code as the base for the project.
The next steps for development will be:
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Redo the chrome for simple, mobile, touchable UI.
- Integrate the menu gtk calls with Hildon API for an integrated menu.
- Integrate the window for Hildon panning functionality.
Goals for the browser include:
- Has simple finger-driven UI
- Retains lovable Firefox features including: clean UI, standards-focused, xul-based, add-on support, plug-ins, etc.
We'd love your help.
Getting the Source The mobile-browser source is contained in a git source repository. You can either view the source online at:
http://www.moblin.org/repos/projects/mobile-browser.git
Or you can clone the git tree using:
$ git clone http://www.moblin.org/repos/projects/mobile-browser.git
NOTE: To install git from Ubuntu, run "sudo apt-get install git-core".