Sunday, January 18, 2009

More fennec on e-ink and Midori-webkit too

So it turns out that learning a bit about when and where to click in an application helps make it behave better. :-) So another Fennec on E-Ink video, this time it feels more like a usable mobile browser. I haven't gotten hildon built yet so no on-screen keyboard input yet. I'm feeling more excited about this stuff. The cooperation between X and the kernel makes everything else work without modification.



You're probably going to ask, so you've tried Fennec, what about a webkit based mobile browser? Well, I couldn't find any that I could build for my Gumstix. If you have a suggestion, please let meknow. However, I did try Midori-webkit-gtk which works quite well if I ignore the lack of a touchscreen friendly user interface. It did better than Fennec in terms of memory consumption and was able to render more sites as far as I could tell. I've posted this Midori-webkit-gtk on E-Ink video.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow! Fantastic work.

12:50 PM  
Blogger jayakumar said...

Thanks :-)

4:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HI ...sir, whats your native...i am from coimbatore..i am also interested in kernel programming..but dont know where to start..

8:31 PM  
Blogger jayakumar said...

Please don't call me sir. I'm old but I'm not pre-independence old. As for starting kernel programming, start with printk(KERN_INFO "hello world") and go from there. :-)

2:32 PM  

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