http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/nokia-funds-lightweight-mozilla-browser-
minimo-016425.php
CNet covers Nokia's investment in the Mozilla Foundation's 'Minimo'
browser for mobile devices, a move that happened last year but is just
now coming to light. The aim is to provide a free, open-source web
browser in a small, computationally-lightweight package that would excel
at rendering web pages on the small screens and small memory spaces of
mobile devices -- specifically mobile phones, but also on PDAs and other
portables. With the current version of the streamlined Mozilla-based
browser Firefox weighing in at a slender 4.7MB (the recent 0.9 version
is actually smaller than 0.8), the Mozilla developers have shown they
have the technical ability to push out a stripped-down browser in Minimo
that will run nicely on the horsepower-limited (but growing) mobile
devices of the future.
If nothing else, the cash infusion from Nokia for Minimo will help
Mozilla continue to push out browsers for the PC market, as well.
Received on Fri Jun 18 23:29:51 2004