Post - Mozilla Working on Mobile Firefox Browser Now
Very nice!
Looking forward to testing this one.
Quote:
After a couple of experiences dipping a toe into the mobile market, Mozilla Corp. said it plans to get serious about developing a mobile browser.
Mozilla has recently hired two new developers to help work on the project and plans to release Mobile Firefox some time in the next year or two.
The iPhone, Apple Inc.'s popular new mobile phone, in part contributed to the renewed interest in mobile browsing at Mozilla. "The user demand for a full browsing experience on mobile devices is clear," Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering at Mozilla Corp. wrote in his blog on Tuesday. "If you weren't sure about this before, you should be after the launch of the iPhone."
As Mozilla continues to develop Mozilla2, the second version of the platform on which Firefox is built, it will add mobile devices as a category. That means developers of Mozilla2, which is expected to be complete in early 2009, will keep mobile phones in mind as they build the new platform, Schroepfer wrote.
He didn't get more specific on a release date for the mobile browser other than to say "not before 2008." Schroepfer also said Mozilla hadn't yet decided which mobile phones the browser would work on.
This is great news. I have always wondered why Firefox and Mozilla have been turning a blind eye towards a mobile browser when Opera (with their Opera Mini) is already innovating a lot on that front.
This is a great step (better late than never) towards Firefox's extension to mobile devices.
King Rides again!
