From: Keltos Kirpi (keltoskirpi@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu 08 Apr 2004 - 09:42:30 EEST
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Subject: Re: What are the goals of Mozilla.org?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:54:38 -0700
From: Doug Turner <dougt@meer.net>
To: mozilla-small-devices@mozilla.org
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey,netscape.public.mozilla.small-devices
Followup-To: netscape.public.mozilla.small-devices
I am sure that I can not comment on the all of goals of mozilla,
but as for Minimo... Minimo is one of the most important fronts that
the Mozilla.org has. (okay, well maybe I a bit bias.)
Last I read, Linux currently makes up about 3% of the desktop and the
same for the consumer mobile markets. The linux usage or adoption rate
is increase much faster in the mobile market. More people are seeing
linux for devices as the obvious solution. Major manufacturers are
shipping linux on consumer devices such as the Sharp Zaurus. Linux
replacement OS's are reaching the point that non-geeks can use then
productively.
Many browsers in this space are limited that simple dhtml pages file to
layout. Others are huge memory consumers making them impossible to run
over the simplest page cycles. Minimo beat these browsers hands down.
Most of the goals of Minimo were shared by Mozilla. The majority of our
initial work was footprint and modularization. I think a goal of
Mozilla should be to foster continued work to make Mozilla smaller in
both disk footprint and memory usage. We have made allot of progress!
Mozilla owners should have a goal of minimizing footprint and making the
product as modular as possible so that we can remove optional component
for 'lite' projects such as Minimo.
With that said, Minimo needs more than that... We face some problems
that most of the traditional Mozilla user dont have. One of the obvious
problems is that most web pages and our client ui is designed for at
least 640x480. We need to think of better ways to make browsing such a
site not only do-able, but enjoyable. Glazman has done some excellent
work in the content area and has release a SSR extension for Mozilla,
kudos!.
Products like firefox have a chance on some of the high end mobile
device if its UI could notice that the resolution is too small and so
something smart. Right now, running the suite or the ng clients run
fine on many ARM devices but they are simply unstable since much of the
app ui isnt viewable.
Random needs|goals of Minimo in no particular order:
* Minimo needs to be running on QT. I have gotten many request for a QT
version of Minimo. If you know how to fix this port and have the time,
lets talk.
* Minimo needs UI love. We need some minimalistic eye candy.
* Minimo needs people to help identify code that can be removed if we
don't want it. For example, maybe you know about some code that we have
to handle some obscure or not frequently used feature. Tell me about it.
* Minimo needs some UI GTK help. If you have some time to do some gtk
hacking, please drop me a note. I have a few small tasks that I would
love to hand off.
Regards,
Doug Turner
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