02-15-2005, 05:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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Mozilla Minimo Under Development For Windows CE
"Lead Minimo developer Doug Turner has confirmed that he is working on a Windows CE version of Minimo. Minimo is a version of Mozilla for small devices, which up until now has been built for Linux-based PDAs. Microsoft's Windows CE operating system is the basis of the Windows Mobile platform, which powers a variety of Pocket PCs and Smartphones. Windows CE builds of Minimo are expected in a few weeks. Doug is looking for help too: 'So, here is a general call for Windows CE developers! If you are interested in Mozilla on Windows CE and have time to help me with some of the work, please drop me a line.'"
This is great news.  If any of you Pocket PC developers amongst the crowd want to participate, click through and drop him a line. I'd love to see Minimo hit Pocket PCs -- Pocket IE isn't quite flexible or powerful enough for my tastes.
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02-15-2005, 05:33 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2004
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My god is this great news. Pocket IE totally sucks. It's better then say, the new AvantGo CLient( :devilboy: ) but we have LONG needed a better (and free) browser for Pocket PC and I am willing to give up the RAM to use it.
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02-15-2005, 06:11 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: May 2002
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Even though I am fairly happy with NetFront as my browser of choice I would love to see this come to the Pocket PC. An open source project of this importance to the platform (especially given the obvious limits of PIE ) would be great to see .
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02-15-2005, 06:13 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2002
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I guess this is a chicken or egg kind of thing. There have been other browsers for Pocket PC but they all suffer from an extreme lack of content on the web. Not to mention the difficulty and expense of gaining access to the web in the first place. I hope this interest brings a renewed interest in developing web content for a small screen. It seems that there are fewer sites supporting a Pocket PC every day. Even sites that are supposed to be Pocket PC Centric (if that's a valid term) have dropped their Pocket PC formatted pages. Thank goodness Pocket PC Thoughts is not one of them. 
Bill B.
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02-15-2005, 06:24 PM
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Thoughts Media Review Team
Join Date: May 2002
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I have actually been finding a lack of PPC formated sites not to be a problem since I have been using NetFont. Most sites seem to render pretty well.
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02-15-2005, 06:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Sweet! This would resolve one of the Pocket PC's most glaring weaknesses: the lousy Pocket IE.
(The other IMHO, the lack of HTML email, is solved by WebIS's @Mail.)
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02-15-2005, 07:16 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 589
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Re: Mozilla Minimo Under Development For Windows CE
I think it's about time to PayPal some funds to that there Minimo team :wink:
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02-15-2005, 07:20 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 7
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Thank god they are working on this, the Pocket IE is so bad. I will gladly give them some money for a firefox type browser on the ppc.
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02-15-2005, 09:02 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Ok, so who has used Minimo on other platforms such as Linux? What do you guys think of it? Is it time to get excited or not?
Dave
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02-16-2005, 12:58 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Yeah, that's a great question. Does anybody have a link to a review of minimo for linux devices?
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