Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-11 Thread Mark Haury
Tuukka Tolvanen wrote: On 5/10/08, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing I've noticed is that there seems to be some kind of proxy thing going on when I try to go to a Web site: instead of just going directly to the site I selected, there's some sort of "wysiwyg.something"

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-10 Thread Tuukka Tolvanen
On 5/10/08, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I've noticed is that there seems to be some kind of proxy > thing going on when I try to go to a Web site: instead of just going > directly to the site I selected, there's some sort of > "wysiwyg.something" address that shows in the addre

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Mark
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Of course, but the UI layer is deeper than that. I'm not sure the > developers optimizing XUL for Fennec would agree on "the UI is a > non-issue". Funtionality and performance in the UI layer is a serious > issue for any browse

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Ryan Abel
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Kevin T. Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:48:33AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In my earlier post I said that our browser development is being done >> nowadays on the Gecko trunk (practically same as Fennec) and we are also >> willi

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:48:33AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In my earlier post I said that our browser development is being done > nowadays on the Gecko trunk (practically same as Fennec) and we are also > willing to embrace the Firefox add-on developer community. Fennec will Will we see

RE: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread quim.gil
Hi, > This is actually where the Mozilla version has a very distinct > advantage: they plan to support plug-ins, and there will be > much more functionality. The current MicroB has some serious > shortcomings in that area. There are some rather basic and > important settings and functionality

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:53:29AM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: > I tend to use the mobile version of GR, which I don't really like, but > at least it's reliable. They need to do much more than a single item, ust fired up reader on my 800 and it appears to be working, albeit slowly (might blame

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Mark
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Uwe Kaminski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds very nice! I do want take a look... :) > ...but is it possible to use the browser without a hardware keyboard? > The virtual one of os2008 doesen't work, right? > > My first impressions are: > - no field for input

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan Greene
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Kevin T. Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:50:54PM +0200, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: >> >> MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually >> quite fast. > > > Lucky, it doesn't work for me. Fennec is still pretty

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:50:54PM +0200, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > > MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually > quite fast. Lucky, it doesn't work for me. Fennec is still pretty unusable for me on an n800, although i have it installed and am waiting for an upd

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Uwe Kaminski
Jonathan Greene schrieb: > I love the Fennec browser though it could clearly use less memory, be > more stable and launch more quickly. ;) > That sounds very nice! I do want take a look... :) ...but is it possible to use the browser without a hardware keyboard? The virtual one of os2008 doesen'

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Same feeling :) -- Anidel On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Jonathan Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a feeling that my 915 subscriptions have something to do with > the load issues. ;) > > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > That's weird,

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan Greene
I have a feeling that my 915 subscriptions have something to do with the load issues. ;) On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's weird, > > MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually > quite fast. > > -- > anidel > > On

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
That's weird, MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually quite fast. -- anidel On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love the Fennec browser though it could clearly use less memory, be > more stable and launch more quickly.

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Jonathan Greene
I love the Fennec browser though it could clearly use less memory, be more stable and launch more quickly. ;) It can actually render my Google Reader page which MicroB cannot ... I find it super responsive and hope we see it packaged in a future release. What I understood from the original Ars p

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Mark
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But users don't deal with engines alone, you have the UI in between and > this is where the Mozilla browser in Chinook and Fennec differ most: the > first uses an own UI providing -as for today- much better performance > that XUL

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, ext John Holmblad wrote: > All, > > for those who have not already seen the article whose url is: > > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-first-look-mozilla-fennec-targets-handheld-browser-market.html > > It provides a comparison of the performance of Microb versus Fennec o