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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. 5 megs to display google.com ? by moro_666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "To run the build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com."

    and can someone remember who was the one who said that 64kb is enough for everything ?

    i remember when i used to play around with an Elektronika computer which was built in USSR, it the same massive 64kb of ram and only a floppy drive ....

    everything that was supposed to work, worked.

    ofcourse .. the www wasn't invented just yet ... not even mentioning windows or any browsers ...

    argh these good old days ...

    anyway ... there must be something wrong both with platform and the browser if the simplest page on the net need 5mb to render itself :(

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    1. Re:5 megs to display google.com ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
      and can someone remember who was the one who said that 64kb is enough for everything ?

      Who? The only quote I know is about 640 KB, and it's not from any Mozilla developer, but rather from Bill Gates. I don't know how that could have as much effect as you wish.

      anyway ... there must be something wrong both with platform and the browser if the simplest page on the net need 5mb to render itself :(

      Considering the browser needs to support all those details from the standards, I wouldn't expect it to have a memory footprint of a couple kilobytes. Maybe the browser will get lighter as the code is refined. Also, it's not like because it consumed 5 MB for Google a substantially bigger page will need substantially more memory.

  2. Options by opposume · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Options are key in continuing the advance of the handheld environment. I think it's great that they're porting "mozilla" over. I look forward to using it.

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  3. Needs to be smaller, but without security!? by solafide · · Score: 4, Insightful
    That seems a little unusual for a browser that prides itself on security to drop it in a minimum build, even if that just means no SSL.

    It is still commendable that it is being made smaller - that is its main disadvantage.