A few weeks ago Vlad had the chance to do performance tests across a variety of different devices. He’s picked up a Droid as part of his Android work, also has access to an N900, and I also know he’s proud to admit that’s he’s a Zune HD owner.
Firefox for Mobile has been getting [...]
First, Aza Raskin does a quick interview with Dan Mills to talk about what’s going on with Weave. There’s been a huge amount of development going on in the weave project including a completely new server and client. I’ve heard that some of the labs guys have Weave syncing between desktop and mobile [...]
I’ve had my T-Mobile/HTC/”with Google” G1 for two days now. I got mine on the 21st in the mail, ahead of the launch date and I’ve been living with it for a couple of days. A lot of people that I know are thinking of buying one, so I thought it would be worth it [...]
Fennec, which is the code name we’re using for the lead-up to a mobile version of Firefox, has reached an important milestone: Alpha 1. Mark has details up on his blog, including some good feeedback from people trying it out.
We’ve got builds for the Maemo platform. We also have builds for Linux Desktop, Mac and [...]
Vlad has been doing some of the integration work to get TraceMonkey working on ARM. He’s posted a first set of performance numbers which are more or less in line with the x86 numbers that were originally posted. Here’s the graph we care about:
The ARM backend is about 2,000 lines of code and [...]
Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work.
Ryan’s article contains this quote from Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa:
“Nokia will use the best browser for the job,” he said. “Currently, [...]
The second edition of about:mobile is up wherein we cover Fennec M6, Windows Mobile, Network Peformance and Geolocation. Go check it out on the devnews site above or feel free to sign up for the mailing list which will conveniently deliver it to your mailbox.
This image was taken from the overhead projector during Jay’s morning talk about mobile.
Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C and C++, not in XUL. (I also assume that Antonio did this work?)
As [...]
July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be:
July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important the web and its users are, talk about some of the cool stuff [...]