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

[From: Doug Turner]

Congratulations everyone.  Looking forward to download and use it!

-- Doug


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
>
>