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Lead Mozilla Developer Talks Windows CE

Posted by Zonk on from the tiny-dinosaur dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Lead Developer of the Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project, Doug Turner, has ported Minimo over to the Windows CE platform. He discusses this new version of the lightweight edition of Mozilla in a newsgroup posting." From the post: "Currently, I am building against the Pocket PC 2003 SDK. We may want to adjust this at some point, but I thought it would be acceptable place to start. The binary is 3.8MB compressed not including security. To run the build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com."

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  1. Minimo lead developer by asa · · Score: 4, Informative

    Doug Turner is the lead developer for the Minimo project at Mozilla. This project has a focus on small consumer devices and so this news of a WindowsCE port is very exciting.

    --Asa

    1. Re:Minimo lead developer by khanyisa · · Score: 2, Informative

      Asa is trying to say politely that Doug Turner isn't the lead developer for the whole Mozilla project, as the slashdot summary says. Please fix it up :-)

  2. Re:Now all we need to do is disable JavaScript! by OldMiner · · Score: 4, Informative

    The entire user interface of Mozilla is defined by XUL, a markup language. But XUL only says "create a menu and add these menuitems". It does not implement any program logic, for, say, what to do when a menuitem is clicked. All actual behavior has to be implemented via Javascript. So it's not so much Gecko that needs Javascript but that the UI of Mozilla does. And that includes such things as pop-up menus when you right click.

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  3. Re:5 megs to display google.com ? by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Informative

    5MB isn't much for a WinCE app to use while running- my GPS map browser uses about that much, as does Windows Media. HOWEVER- his EXE size seems a bit large to me (3.8 MB) as Pocket IE on Wince is only 18k for the exe- though I think it has lots of DLLs.

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  4. Re:Now all we need to do is disable JavaScript! by damiam · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can disable Javascript in Gecko quite easily. The Mozilla interface itself requires it, but it can be disabled in the frame that shows the actual page.

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