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Mozilla Windows CE Development
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From: "teod" <t...@libero.it>
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Subject: Re: Mozilla Windows CE Development
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:34:06 +0100
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Hi Dug,
your work looks very fine, i'm testing Minimo with a Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket
Loox 720 with VGA resolution and it works; Minimo seems to be very very fast
with wi-fi connection (my PDA has 128MB of ram).
I've written a message on an Italian Forum and i hope some people can help
you with your project.
You can find my post here:
http://www.solopalmari.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=994
"Doug Turner" <do...@meer.net> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:42144B49.2000809@meer.net...
> Hello all,
>
> Thank you for your interest in the Windows CE work we are doing. I have
> gotten alot of feedback from my posting to the newsgroup regarding help
> on building a great browser for Windows CE. I thought I would take this
> moment to tell you the progress I have made and point out a few areas
> where I think you can help.
>
> So, as of today, if you had a bit of time, you could build yourself a
> browser that is based on the Mozilla source code.
>
> I have been able to port Minimo -- a smaller configuration of Mozilla
> over to Windows CE. The heavy lifting is mostly done with respect to
> porting. In fact, I have a IPAQ 6315 for a phone and it is the browser
> I use daily. There are a few loose ends such as XPTCall
> (http://www.mozilla.org/scriptable/xptcall-faq.html), build and config
> changes, https, and code reviews. Most of these items have people
> working on them. If you are interested in any, please let me know. The
> tracking bug for all things windows ce related is here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277211.
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> Currently, I am building against the Pocket PC 2003 SDK. We may want to
> adjust this at some point, but I thought it would be acceptable place to
> start. The binary is 3.8MB compressed not including security. To run
> the build I have, you need about 5mb of memory to display www.google.com
> (this is a pretty soft number. i need a better tool to determine exact
> rss usage -- if you have a tool in mind, please let me know)
>
> I have written up some notes on how to go about building this stuff. I
> don't claim the notes are perfect, but they are a start. Ideally, the
> notes will turn into a "how to build for windows ce" webpage. If
> someone wants to help on this, please let me know. The notes are here:
> http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/NOTES.txt. The short term plan
> is to make building windows CE very simple -- as simply as building the
> Mozilla suite or Firefox.
>
> The build works great on the device, but I am having some troubles
> getting things to compile for the emulator. Maybe someone can help
> here. I have toolwrappers (read my notes) for the emulator that I can
> send you. Just to note, it looks like libraries are building built but
> nothing is being exported.
>
> On to the application itself...
>
> If you try the build now you will find there is alot of windows
> integration work that needs to happen. For example, we need to be able
> to get our app into the start menu. I don't have a clue on how to do
> this yet and am hoping that one of you do.
>
> Another thing you will notice is the UI for the application is terrible.
> I really need your input and windows ce coding skills here. If you
> want to take a look at the current code for the application, it is
> here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/embedding/minimo/wince.
>
> You can download a sneak peak at this build here:
> http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/MinimoCE_0.002.zip. Keep in mind,
> it is basically the second build that I made that actually rendered a
> page successfully. When you check it out, remember I told you: Lots of
> work to do; Lots of work to do.
>
> If you find bugs, please write them up in bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Minimo For the
> Operating System, just simply select other. We are working on adding a
> Windows CE option.
>
> Please let me know what you think and sign up for work if you can. we
> can't make this happen without you.
>
> Regards,
> Doug
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