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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. Now all we need to do is disable JavaScript! by kriston · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the two things that a large ISP didn't like about Mozilla was the fact that it required 18 megabytes of memory just to run the Gecko engine so they stuck with their own renderer for "rich text" email and other UI elements.

    The second thing they didn't like was the total inability to remove JavaScript from the product. JavaScript is (evidently) required to render HTML pages by Gecko.

    I guess one out of two ain't bad.

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  2. smaller 1x browser? by icepick72 · · Score: 4, Interesting


    An interesting item I ran into a while ago is the 1X browser: it fits on a floppy, is very small yet surprisingly functional and fast, however it requires payment (trial version available from the site). I think it works only in Windows -- I can't find any info about it being ported to CE.

  3. Re:5 megs to display google.com ? by damiam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IE6 under Windows 2k3 is only 90k. It really is nothing more than a shell around a bunch of dlls.

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