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Brad Lassey of Mozilla posted a message to his blog today.
See: http://blog.mozilla.com/blassey/2008...aemo-buildbot/

In short, we now have a working build of FF 3.0 beta 4 (ish).

First, download this:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/xul...ux-arm.tar.bz2

Then bunzip -d it.
Then tar xvf.

You'll have an ./xulrunner directory.

cd to it, and run:
./xulrunner --register-global

Now, you'll want to download one of the xulrunner apps.
The best one so far seems to be (http://wiki.mozilla.org/images/1/15/...ser-atotic.zip).

You'll need to unzip that file, and cd to the touchscreenbrowser directory, and then make a new zipfile named touchscreenbrowser.xulapp. Make sure that the files in the directory are at the root of the zipfile (so that if you unzip it again, all the files are uncompressed into the current directory).

Then install it, by typing ./xulrunner --install-app ~./touchscreenbrowser.xulapp (or whever it is).

You should then be able to go to /usr/lib/samsung/touchscreenbrowser/, and then start it by typing ./touchscreenbrowser.

Of the apps on lassey's page, this one seems the best. It can scroll via dragging (unlike the simple browser), and unlike the other touchscreen app, the text is zoomed correctly on this one.

Oh, and the user agent is already hard-coded to the iPhone.

Clearly, this is a work in progress. But the nice part is that the browser can now be written in javascript. One or two ITT members could quickly fix up most of the problems with this demo.

Already, I find this browser to be nicer than MicroB - although it is a wee bit slower for pageload. Page nav is much faster though.
 

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