firefox for mobiles

Florent THIERY fthiery at gmail.com
Mon May 14 00:29:36 CEST 2007


Hi

> Or opera of course... it went fully open-source didn't it?

No it's not. It's just free.

I'm wondering why nobody seems to consider webkit as the viable alternative:
* it's open source
* it's been ported to qt recently, which may lead openmoko to use qt libs
* there is a registered google summer of code whose aim is to port
webkit for openmoko
http://code.google.com/soc/openmoko/appinfo.html?csaid=B5A2E96741FD60E4
* there is an ongoing effort to put webkit & gdk together
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/browser/trunk/WebCore/platform/gdk
* so many firms use webkit in their own mobile products (ex: nokia
S60)... because it's maybe the fastest and lightest webengine

So.... Let's wait 'til the end of the summer :)

Regards

Florent




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