Comments on: Fennec + CrunchPad?

By: pc1oad1etter / nick

pc1oad1etter / nick — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 03:23:55 +0000

Mark,

The company I work for is hoping to run xulrunner apps on a small tablet-like device. We will definitely be watching to see if the crunchpad is a candidate for that.

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:23:00 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:35:35 +0000

@ Mark – Excellent! I’ll be watching closely for the next milestone release! Fennec looks like it may single handedly revitalize the Windows Mobile Internet experience, which would be nice for those of us tied to WinMo by corporate requirements. Keep up the good work!

By: voracity

voracity — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:56:26 +0000

Could I ask again why they chose Webkit? Is it because Fennec isn’t ready for showtime yet?

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:01:22 +0000

@funThomas – Fennec runs on the Nokia n8X0 Internet Tablet and we do work with the Nokia team. The CrunchPad is a little different class of device, although these device do get faster and better all the time. The CrunchPad is more like a touchscreen netbook tablet (no physical keyboard). The n8X0 is physically a little smaller.

By: funTomas

funTomas — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:39:48 +0000

Isn’t NOKIA working on Tablet around Fennec?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:23:49 +0000

Fennec would also work great on the new web-enabled TVs that were so popular at CES. You could use a remote like the Wii control to navigate around.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:12:33 +0000

They actually seem committed to only having a web browser, so the XUL runtime *shouldn’t* be a positive for them since if they stick to their guns their won’t be any ‘applications’ outside the browser.

On the other hand I’m not sure that kind of conceptual purity can sustain itself outside of, say, Apple. I mean look at the number of people in the comments saying “this is great, it just needs a keyboard” (and they don’t even mean bluetooth or wireless).

On the third hand, they really need to customise the browser interface to get the most out of the unique form factor, much as Fennec has for smaller, one-handed touchscreens. You’d think the Mozilla platform would win in that regard over Webkit which, to my knowledge, is just the renderer.

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:51:35 +0000

@Josh – The Windows Mobile builds are coming. We have actually moved past just getting Fennec to build to working on some speed optimizations. We are also working on some of the details to make the launch experience nicer.

We plan on releasing Maemo and Windows Mobile builds for the next milestone.

By: Al Billings

Al Billings — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:27:53 +0000

It has been suggested that Fennec might do well on the netbook devices except they aren’t touchscreen-based. Normal Firefox UI gets in the way on those.