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MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the quick-progress-worthy-project dept.

webgrappa writes "If you (yes, yes, you that like OpenSource but use Win all the time) own a Windows Mobile Device, in a near future you'll trash Pocket IE and NetFront. MozillaZine has photos of MiniMo running on Windows Mobile Device."

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  1. Palm, sometime? by Justin205 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Come on, when will this be ported to Palm OS? I'm currently using NetFront on my Clie, and while it renders pages pretty great, it's slow. Very slow.

    So, when? Because Minimo on a Palm would be very nice.

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  2. Nice to have a choice. by Sheetrock · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Apparently though if you're on a page with a word larger than seven characters, apparently you get the famous screen-widening effect.

    I just wish they'd distribute Firefox instead of Mozilla -- it makes a noticable difference on the desktop, and I'd imagine an even more sizeable one on a cellphone. Although I just recently saw a DivX movie on a friend's system, so maybe they're powerful enough to tolerate a little bloat.

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  3. Minimo on desktops? by Shachaf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since Minimo seems to require a relatively small amount of memory (compared to Mozilla or Firefox), has anyone ever considered porting it back to the desktop so it can be used as a very lightweight browser on desktop?

  4. PalmOS DBs vs. filesystems by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And the change to filesystem methodology for Palms is a good thing WHY?

    The old database-style techniques were far more efficient. When PalmOne moved to a filesystem-based architecture with the Treo 650, users found that N megs of RAM in the new device was equivalent to N/2 megs of RAM in the old device.

    PalmOS has always been more efficient and far better than Windows Mobile for any embedded device. PalmOS devices have historically been more usable despite 1/10 the processing power of a WinCE device thanks to the fact that PalmOS was designed from the ground up for mobile devices, while WinCE and its bastard brethren are a horrendous hack.

    Unfortunately, PalmOS 5.x is a step backwards. POS 5.x runs on significantly faster hardware than OS4, with practically no benefits in 95% of situations. It's still a hell of a lot better than any mobile version of Windows.

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  5. Zaurus port? by samdu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When will there be a Zaurus port of this? I'm aware of only one such project, but thus far I've been unable to get Firefox to run on the standard Sharp ROM. I tried OpenZaurus but it was buggy. It certainly would be nice to be able to run Firefox on the many Linux-based handhelds.

  6. Better browsers for PocketPC have been around... by shoolz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Try: http://park15.wakwak.com/~ftx/

    I've been using it for about 2 years... tabbed browsing, text sizing, 'simply view' mode (no side scrolling or useless formatting), and the app is a mere 73K. Nice.

  7. No real zoom though (unlike opera) by Ezza · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you look you'll see that the Google logo is at 1:1 resolution.
    That's because the gecko renderer doesn't support "true" zoom of text + images (yet), so until that's fixed it'll only be useful if you've got a nice big screen (and/or you like to scroll). Of course the Opera engine has been able to do this for years..
    The relevant mozilla bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4821
    (copy & paste to your browser)

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