Mozilla’s Mobile group has been hard at work getting the Mozilla platform running on some mobile devices. Recently, Brad Lassey posted about getting XULRunner working on Nokia’s N800/N810 (Maemo) Internet tablets. He linked to a XULRunner binary and showed some XUL-based applications running on an N810.
This is big news for me because wherever you find a XULRunner, you’ll find me: building the runtime, writing sample applications, creating platform components and generally having a great time. I even managed to get myself an N810 from the Mobile group. It’s a pretty cool little device. We already have some bugs filed to better integrate the Mozilla platform with the Maemo platform (see bug 426291, bug 426292, bug 426293 and bug 426299). Bug 426355 will start making nightly XULRunner builds for the N800/N810.
So now I am adding support for mobile XULRunner and XUL application development to my list of duties. After all, developing XUL applications and extensions should be the same on WindowXP as it is on the N810 – and it is!
That’s right, I said extensions too. Remember, Mozilla is making a mobile browser and it will rock!
and this insane world comes full circle
from browsing the web at crappy resolutions on high latency connections on a desktop all the way around to browsing the web at crappy resolutions on high latency connections on the run
*snore*
@pd – Snore all you want, you’ll be playing catchup next year. Sounds like you have been snoring through much of last year too, if you think mobile is still slow connections and poor resolutions.
Oh, boy. I’ve been waiting for this (see “You say ‘browser,’ I say ‘development platform’” — http://www.internettablettalk.com/2007/10/24/you-say-browser-i-say-development-platform/ )
In every regard, this is going to be a smash hit on the Nokia tablets.
Roger