Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Port Mozilla To The Pocket PC?
Posted by Janak Parekh in "DEVELOPER" @ 10:00 PM
A group of people seem to be tired of having "pocket" web browsers on the Pocket PC platform, and would like to have a full-featured solution instead. As a result, they've taken up the idea of porting Mozilla. While this is theoretically doable, as Mozilla is a fairly modular system (with, most importantly, a separate rendering engine called "Gecko") which runs on most platforms, some work would need to be done in the UI and reformatting aspects to make it feasible.
To this end, they've set up a pool for people to make contributions to entice open-source programmers to build such a port. I think it's a great idea -- there's nothing wrong with getting more software on the Pocket PC, and if a first-class desktop HTML renderer could be ported over, we'd have a superior web browsing solution to a lot of the tools we have now. The Pocket PC certainly has the processing power, so why not? ;) If you're interested in contributing or working on the project to try and win the pool, check it out.
To this end, they've set up a pool for people to make contributions to entice open-source programmers to build such a port. I think it's a great idea -- there's nothing wrong with getting more software on the Pocket PC, and if a first-class desktop HTML renderer could be ported over, we'd have a superior web browsing solution to a lot of the tools we have now. The Pocket PC certainly has the processing power, so why not? ;) If you're interested in contributing or working on the project to try and win the pool, check it out.