Questions about OpenMoko web browser

Thu Nov 15 16:00:56 CET 2007

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2007年11月15日, Holger Freyther <zecke at selfish.org>:
>> Hey,
> some one feels like answering Mr. Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente
> questions?
>> z.
>>> Jose: This is a community project why do you think it is better to pick one
> person (me) instead of asking our community? You just took some of my
> valuable spare time which means I will have less time to write code which
> saddens me.... Please see rule 2 from [1].... Sending patches can undo the
> damage....
>> [1] http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html
>>>> Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
>> Von: "Jose Manrique Lopez de la Fuente" <jsmanrique at gmail.com>
> Datum: 15. November 2007 13:39:48 MEZ
> An: zecke at selfish.org
> Betreff: Questions about OpenMoko web browser
>>> Hello,
>> I have some questions about how OpenMoko web browser.
>> - It is going to be used in a mobile phone. Does it send a
> X-WAP-Profile or Profile HTTP header when it makes a request? Does it
> use UAProf standard[1]?
> - Have you considered adding OpenMoko web browser capabilities to
> WURFL[2] description file?
> - Does OpenMoko support CSS Media Queries[3]? Specially "handheld" CSS
> render.
>> These features are very useful for web content providers that adapt it
> depending on device capabilities.
>> I know that OpenMoko web browser is based in WebKit (like iPhone,
> Android os S60 platforms), but offering desktop website in a handheld
> device gives a poor user experience:
> - Scrolls. Ok, you can have nive kninetic scrolls, but, it is a mess
> when reading content that way, specially using horizontal scrolling.
> - Content reading. Offering a zoom out version of the website could
> make it unreadable for the user (personal experience with iPhone and
> Opera Mini 4)
> - Size of downloaded data (think about cost/byte)
> - And many others...
>> We already have W3C Mobile Web Best Practices[4], and it would be nice
> if OpenMoko web browser think about it and perhaps it could join some
> initiatives as W3C Device Description Repository[5] to make it a
> 'golden class' device in test suites[6]
>> And think about this:
> - Screens are getting bigger
> - Screen resolutions are getting bigger
> - But my hand still have the same size
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> [1]
> http://www.developershome.com/wap/detection/detection.asp?page=uaprof
> [2] http://wurfl.sf.net
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2007/02/mwbp_flip_cards
> [5] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/DDWG/
> [6] http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Tests/
> --
> J. Manrique López de la Fuente
> http://www.jsmanrique.es
>
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