Revision as of 11:54, 27 March 2011

N900 Developer Edition Browser alternatives study

Target is to to decide if we use Fennec or some other alternative as the main browser in N900 Meego Developer Edition.

Alternatives and comments Please add ideas, finding, and new alternatives here

• Fennec
  • Good mobile UI
  • Good rendering performance
  • Current startup time bad >30sec

• Tablet UX browser
  • Not yet open => unknown if it can be easily taken into use
  • Schedule unclear
  • Chromium is already in meego upstream, and built for ARM afaik (Jukka)

• QMLDemobrowser
  • Minimal => no features
  • Probably fast (needs to be checked

• Orange Mobile Browser
  • https://github.com/OrangeLabsUK/OrangeMobileBrowser#readme
  • Experimental
  • First experiments: startup about 5s on Meego N900. scrolling quite fast. works only in landscape. Potential is there. We could make quick minibrowser with small modifications. More investigation needed.

• Dooble Web Browser
  • http://dooble.sourceforge.net/

• Let's write a new browser
  • NOT AN OPTION

Target is to conclude the alternative in the weekly meeting at 2011-03-25