building the complete browser for everyone everywhere
Since Stuart landed the Qt port into mozilla-central the other day and Ryan Paul wrote an article on Qt and Mozilla I thought it might be worth it to add some context to that work.
Ryan’s article contains this quote from Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa:
“Nokia will use the best browser for the job,” he said. “Currently, we cannot make a full-featured and integrated browser with WebKit in mobile. But with Mozilla, we do not need to do anything, we can take existing models and API’s which are available. Also, NPAPI support is already in the Gecko web rendering engine. They are also concerned that WebKit is, to some extent, controlled by Apple, who are in competition to Nokia with their iPhone.”
There are a few important things to note here. First, that Mozilla is the complete package. We’ve got everything that you need to implement a browser. Disk cache, integrated (and well tested!) networking, a super-fast JS implementation, an XML UI markup language (XUL) and a brand that regular humans recognize. Those things mean you can get to market faster as a mobile integrator or developer instead of having to create them yourselves again.
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