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Mozilla/QT needs developers!

Posted by chrisd on from the zaurus-running-mozilla-would-be-cool dept.

strredwolf writes "They need developers to port Mozilla to TrollTech's QT. The origional port is since 0.9.9 and hasn't been updated since. We need that Mozilla for the iPAQ or Zaurus!!!"

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  1. Handhelds? by Xunker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to question the actual feasability of Mozilla on a handheld.. well, current handhelds. Mozilla, while powerfull and efficient, is also monsterously huge in comparison to the miniscume persistant storage of handhelds and their small execution space.

    I''m sad to say that I think a 32 meg Zaurus couldn't run Mozilla well.. at least, not *stock* Mozilla.

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    1. Re:Handhelds? by DJayC · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Perhaps something more lightweight like Phoenix (or whatever they are going to call it)? But you are right, even Phoenix is a bit chunky for a handheld, but it's nice to know there are people who desire this. I think in order for a Mozilla based browser to work out it would have to be more than a "port".

  2. Why not konqueror? by PinkX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Konqueror has been out for ages already, it's lightweight, and free software. And Qt based.

    I don't know if it's tightly integrated into KDE to make it a Qt-only app (I guess it is), but just the browser component of it could be 'stripped out', KHTML is pretty mature. The AtheOS web browser is bassed off it.

    I am not a KDE/Qt developer nor a KDE user, so I might be wrong at this. But I think it would be easier to mantain a stripped-down, kde-less version of the browser component of Konqueror instead of trying to keep up-to-date with a Qt port of Mozilla, which BTW is a bit bloated for PDAs (and please don't get me wrong here, I *LOVE* Mozilla).

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    1. Re:Why not konqueror? by Jagasian · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I am a big KDE fan and KDE user. I used to think Konq was the best browser for Linux, and it truely was... until Mozilla 1.0. Yes, for years I swore that Mozilla was going nowhere, but once 1.0 was released, and I could see how stable it was... how well it rendered sites. It was then that I realized that Mozilla did it.

      Netscape is back! It reminds me of that Obi-wan quote:
      "You can't win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine."

      How is Netscape more powerful than ever? Well technology wise, functionality wise, and performance wise, it matches Internet Explorer... but what truely makes it invincible is that it is open source software. Just like Obi-wan returned from the grave so has Netscape.

  3. Re:Link doesn't work ... by Trevelyan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've noticed something else.
    If you follow the link from the front pages it dont work. but if you click 'read more' to bring the article up and follow the link from that page then it does work.

    My current guess is that they block 'slashdot.org' but not 'developers.slashdot.org'