Mozilla is readying for the mobile web
Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do?
That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer:
- Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we will make core platform decisions with mobile devices as first-class citizens.
- We will ship a version of “Mobile Firefox” which can, among other things, run Firefox extensions on mobile devices and allow others to build rich applications via XUL.
Say what? XUL on the mobile phone? Awww junk! I think the mobile application and web space just got hotter.
Yeah, now when Minimo works on my PPC-6700 without slowing it down to a crawl I’ll get excited.
Of course I remember suffering the days when Mozilla did that to my desktop, so I have faith.
FOSS helps to level the playing field and give access to developers who haven’t the interest in Visual Studio. The Mozilla Foundation has come a very long way in 8yrs. Though, I think Firefox is still a huge memory hog