Hi, > This is actually where the Mozilla version has a very distinct > advantage: they plan to support plug-ins, and there will be > much more functionality. The current MicroB has some serious > shortcomings in that area. There are some rather basic and > important settings and functionality that are missing from MicroB. Note that you are comparing Fennec's future (their plans) with MicroB's past (the version you are using today). Today Fennec has more shortcomings than our Mozilla based browser from a end user point of view and this is why makes total sense to continue releasing it. In my earlier post I said that our browser development is being done nowadays on the Gecko trunk (practically same as Fennec) and we are also willing to embrace the Firefox add-on developer community. Fennec will improve thanks to Nokia's work and the other way round, such are the wonders of open source. > If you're going to call it an "Internet Tablet", and claim > that is its only purpose, then you'd better make sure that it > can deliver fully on that promise. Sure. "Deliver fully" is not that simple but in relative terms, can you point someone shipping today a mobile device with a browser offering you a "fuller" Internet experience? > From my experience with Fennec, as well as the screen shots > I've seen, the UI is a non-issue: Fennec already appears > "hildonized" out of the box, and anyway one of the main areas > that Mozilla is working on is to make their browsers appear > more "native" regardless of what OS they are installed in. Of course, but the UI layer is deeper than that. I'm not sure the developers optimizing XUL for Fennec would agree on "the UI is a non-issue". Funtionality and performance in the UI layer is a serious issue for any browser development nowadays and the UI layer sitting on top of MicroB today still does a better job. May this change in the future? Sure it can, and we are following that as well, but here and now we need to keep shipping a browser for real mobile users and we don't have the luxury to wait until others have done it. But Mark, the important detail I will insist on is: we are not fighting, we are collaborating. It is our priority to be as aligned with Mozilla upstream as possible, as it is also our interest to follow and support Mozilla's success in the mobile context. -- Quim Gil marketing manager, open source maemo software @ Nokia _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
