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Fennec 1.0 Alpha 2 |
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Info/description:
Fennec will bring a true Web experience to mobile phones and other non-PC devices, yet take advantage of the specific opportunities for new and useful user experiences enabled by mobility and telephony. Fennec will do what users need out of the box, enabling access to their favorite content and rich internet applications. It will integrate smoothly with device features, including easy initiation of phone calls from Web pages, access to local search, maps and directions. It will solve basic usability challenges have generally prevented the mobile Web experience from being pleasant and enjoyable, even though people have a critical need for data when on the go. Fennec will be the mobile Web browser that content and application developers can target to create great software for mobile phones, rather than the plethora of native platforms and programming languages required to reach people in a mobile environment today. Any developer with skills in HTML, CSS and JavaScript will be able to develop for mobile. The purpose of defining a set of release themes is to guide our development, and specifically to help us set release criteria and to make trade-offs where two things we value come in conflict with each other and we need to pick one. We aim to embody the values and design principles that make the desktop version of Firefox successful, but with an implementation appropriate to the mobile environment. In priority order, here are the key themes of the first Fennec release: 1. Simple, fast navigation to Web content - We need to pay close attention to very basic operations that are still hard to accomplish on most mobile phones, like entering URLs, managing bookmarks, providing an equivalent to multiple windows/tabs, designing zooming and scrolling to achieve readability; we will need to question assumptions about how people use the Web when they're on the go, and not view the UI as a "port" of desktop Firefox.
2. Compatibility with the Web - Fennec will provide access to the "full" Web, including rich internet applications developed using AJAX. Web content developers should be able to optimize to smaller screen sizes, etc., but not be required to adopt alternate technologies.
3. Secure - Providing a powerful desktop browser engine with full implementation of JavaScript, AJAX, and other advanced web technologies could open a phone up to exploits which could be more costly and more invasive than PC exploits; security will need to be a key consideration from day one.
4. A "whole product" for mobile - Subject to the security constraints above, Fennec should strive to integrate as much as possible with a phone's mapping application, have the ability to initiate phone calls from phone numbers in Web pages, have access to location information through, and integrate with contacts, calendar items and camera. We should work to ensure that critical necessary plug-ins work out of the box.
5. A platform for innovation on mobile - A key strength of Firefox is its support for third-party innovation through full support for rich internet applications and for Add-ons. By providing full support for JavaScript, AJAX, offline storage and other key ingredients of RIAs, as well as JavaScript access to native phone features, Fennec will enable a whole new wave of mobile application development. Fennec will support Add-ons as well, so that the mobile browsing experience can be augmented and improved by anyone.
Update Description: Alpha 2:
- Comes with better panning, a new theme and a built in JavaScript error console.
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