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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-02-14 , 17:24
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#618
Originally Posted by rantom View Post
I don't know if these have been asked but I'll ask anyways. I like MicroB. It works just fine for normal browsing but there's two things that I really hate in it. There's no way to close the open window(s) if it's in portrait. Sure, you can end the task with the power-button and select "End current task" but other than that you can't just close the window.

The other one is the fact that we can't use the text-field in portrait either, though that's assumably by purpose (since we can't use portrait-vkb either).

Could these be fixed or is MicroB closed-source?
Ummmm... There's a portrait/landscape qwerty/T9 vkb out already. And has been for a while. It's called FastSMSEvo in the repositories, or something like that. It uses the FastSMS keyboard, and it requires you to have FastSMS installed, but you never have to actually use said FastSMS.

And you can use the text fields in-browser when in portrait (either by sliding out the keyboard just far enough to reach the keys, or with the aforementioned portrait vkb). You just can't use the URL text bar - though that might be what you meant.

I agree with you on the MicroB UI in portrait mode. That's one of the few things that personally annoyed me about the decisions of those working on the N900 - give a stripped version of the MicroB UI in portrait instead of a full one.

Oh, and to answer your question: MicroB is basically Firefox with a different UI. It uses the Mozilla Firefox engine (open source) but the user interface (basically everything you see when you use/interact with it) is closed-source.
 

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