Nov 26 2007
Mozilla for Windows Mobile
I have posted a lot in the past about the depressing lack of a good browsing experience on Windows Mobile. Its a difficult thing to get right with a small display and a few companies have tried. Opera Mobile so far gives the best experience but at a price so the confirmation that Mozilla are going to enter this space is good news. Christian Sejersen is heading up the team bringing Mozilla technology to mobile devices:
“It has been about a month since I started at Mozilla and worked on Mobile. We have now reached the point where we have specific goals for Mobile (they are also on the Mobile wiki). The overall goals for Mobile are:
1. provide Mozilla’s standards-based open-source browser engine, optimized for mobile, that can be embedded by device manufacturers and others;
2. a full-featured mobile browser including support for XUL-based add-ons, delivering on Firefox’s key principles of ease-of-use, security and accessibility;
3. grow the Mozilla community in the mobile space;
4. provide tools and documentation to help developers develop, debug and deploy web applications;
5. do all of this work in the shared Mozilla source repositories so all platforms, desktop and mobile benefit each other”
Its important that the browsing experience on Windows Mobile be improved and fast, with the ever looming Android operating system just around the corner, there is no doubt that Google will go to some lengths to ensure they get it right. Couple that with Mozilla’s entry into this space and it can only mean good things for people who want to browse on the move.