[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: New open source Web Browser for Maemo.

[From: João Leite]

Hi All

We have developed a comunication layer, namely BIA (Browser Interface
Agent), which makes it possible for any browser UI to communicate with
any render engine. BIA has functions for Gecko (Mozilla) and GTKWebcore
(KHTML). We have posted debian packages for Gecko. However, the BIA
debian package for GTKWebcore is coming soon.

Cheers

Antônio Gomes wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> This email aims to inform the launch of the MANaOS Web Browser for the
> Maemo/Nokia 770 Platforms. The MANaOS Browser is a port of the
> MiniMo/Mozilla Web Browser [1,2], an embedded version of the
> Mozilla/Firefox Browser. Some screenshots can be viewed at [3, 4].
>
> It implements an application layer to provide a Rendering Engine
> independence. This layer is called BIA (Browser Interface Agent), and
> it enables the users to specify, at compile time, which engine will be
> used (GECKO/MOZILLA or KHTML/GTK+ Webcore).
>
> In this first release, the following features are available:
>  
> * DONE:
>    * Load internet pages
>    * Go back and forward to a desired page in the window
>    * Can reload and stop loading of the web page
>    * Proxy configuration
>    * Progress bar to show web page downloading progress
>    * Increase and decrease font size
>    * Web page menu item
>     - Open page
>     - Open file
>     - Save as
>     - Save image as
>    * Increase and decrease font size
>     - Details
>    * Edit menu
>     - Cut, Copy, Paste, Select all and Find
>    * View menu
>     - Show toolbar
>     - Show images
>    * Settings
>     - Browse offline
>    * Close window / all windows
>    * Enable sensitive menus and buttons, according with the loading state
>    * Enable or disable Go and Forward buttons according with the
> loading state
>    * Global history window
>     - goto, delete and close
>    * 'new_window' signal working properly
>     - popups and links that activated new window are being opened in
> the right way
>    * Navigation menu item was completely implemented
>   
> TODO:
>    * Open and close browser window and switch between windows
>    * Open and define home page locating in the internet
>    * Send e-mail
>    * Add to bookmark
>    * Set as home page
>    * Switching between browser windows
>
> FUTHERMORE
>
>     It is compiled with plug-ins, extensions, cache, dynamic loading
> and JS support.
>
> FOOTPRINT
>
>     At this point, it has about 17Mb of footprint (RSS),
>
> REPOSITORY
>
>     All packages and dependencies (both for i386 and ARM platforms)
> required for builduing MANAoS are available at [5], including some
> howtos and guidelines instructions.
>
> [1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
> [2] http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7396996719.html
> [3] http://www.indt.org.br/10le/manaos/screenshots/screen01.png
> [4] http://www.indt.org.br/10le/manaos/screenshots/screen02.png
>
> [5] http://www.indt.org.br/10le/manaos
>
> Feel free for download and look at the source code, send us patches
> with new features or bug fixes. Every contribution will be apreciated.
>
> ps1 : Special thanks for Doug Turner, the leader of the MiniMo/Mozilla
> Project, and your important help and advices.
>
> *ps2 : Some troubles still remain if the building was performed
> through the '.deb' files: The menu item created can not startup the
> application (MANaOS). Tips ?? In this case, the start up of the
> application must be done from the scratchbox command line enviroment,
> using the 'run-standaone.sh' env script.
>
> $$$$$$ run-standalone.sh /usr/bin/run-manaos.sh
> *
> We hope you enjoy it as you can !!! ;)
>
> kind regards
>
> 10LE Browser Team
>
>


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INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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