Fennec (aka Firefox Mobile) To Debut Next Week
Fennec, the mobile browser developed by Mozilla, makers of Firefox, will soon be making its way to Windows Mobile handsets. According to notes from this week's meeting posted on the Mozilla wiki, the new version is expected the first week of February and will target the HTC Touch Pro.
The Mozilla wiki states:
We are two patches away from the meta goal of building from trunk. The tools changes have review from dougt, and are waiting for review from ted, who has promised review by the end of the week. NSPR changes are waiting for review from Nelson, who asked for and received a patch against NSPR trunk.
The HTC Touch won't be the first device that's able to run the Fennec browser - currently the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet can also run the mobile browser. In addition, anyone who's just curious about what Fennec will look like or how it will behave can test it out on their desktop by installing the appropriate version: either Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.
Want to see what Fennec looks like running on a Windows Mobile device? You can get an idea by checking out some of the images we found here on a Fennec developer's blog.
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OMG , it looks good ! :D
Fennec? Really? Vulpes zerda, the fennec fox, is simply one of the coolest of all the canids. Their giant heat dissipating ears give them one of the most unique faces of family. It is nice to see that they will get a little publicity thanks to Mozilla and their new mobile browser. Hell, I might even have to consider a phone switch just so I can carry around a Fennec.
Obviously on a small phone or PDA screen you don't want to have the address bar visible at all times as you scroll down the page, and so with Safari on the iPhone/Ipod the address bar is only shown at the top of the webpage.
One thing I like about Fennec is that they apply that idea to the left and right sides too,
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2008/09/fennec-m8/
Which seems like a nice, natural way of doing it.
Actually this is a good link too to help explain their UI
http://madhava.com/egotism/archive/005028.html
Just as long as digital security is a high priority than I welcome the new applications. Bring it on! If it isn't than we truly do need to step back and evaluate here. At what cost to me are these advancements? I need to know that my information is safe. Anyway, been browsing around http://www.justaskgemalto.com lately and that has proven to be educational. I hear they might throw up a blog. That'd be helpful as time progresses. Just to keep on top of these things.