The Mozilla Foundation is continuing its fine work to bring the Firefox web browser to Windows Mobile (and Symbian too? Please? Pretty please?).While we wait (and while SkyFire plots to steal its thunder) details are starting to emerge via the Mozilla project wiki that reveal a little more about what we can expect.
Firefox Mobile will come in two flavours - one for phones with a touch screen and one for those without. The touch screen UI will be optimised for finger-tapping rather than stylus while the non-touch screen version will use a ‘virtual mouse cursor’ operated by the D-pad.
From the wiki, it’s clear that Mozilla are putting a lot of thought into how to make Firefox as usable as possible on a portable device. Among the ideas being considered are a ‘magnifying glass’ zoom function, soft keyboard and an unobtrusive way of displaying tabbed pages.
The browser is set to launch later this year. We’ll keep you posted on further developments and wild rumours.
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