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Mozilla 2 promises big change14 Feb 2008 10:05 Behind FirefoxI actually laughed out loud -By Andy
Posted Thursday 14th February 2008 11:10 GMT
- when I read that line about volunteers to port the code to a mobile version. Good luck with that! I'm sure the giant, bloated, slow and aged Gecko will be a joy to port. And at least slightly easier than porting Microsoft Office to RISC OS... Seriously, I hope Moz2 is a thorough restructuring and optimisation, because the engine really needs it in order to be portable and lightweight enough for mobile devices. We could do with another rendering engine to rival the ever-spreading Webkit, too; competition is good. There is a mobile versionBy Simon Greenwood
Posted Thursday 14th February 2008 15:54 GMT
For Windows Mobile at least. It's called Minimo and is backed by the Mozilla Foundation. Plus, the Gecko engine isn't bloated, it's the framework around it that is bloated. Epiphany for Linux is proof that you can still build a lightweight browser around it. The period for commenting on this story has finished |
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