Moblin Browser: What Is It?

Submitted by cwong1, updated on 21 Aug 2008 - 0 comments
Moblin Browser

The following are high level requirements for the Moblin Browser, captured by James and Rusty at the 3rd development sprint.

  • provide "full internet" experience
    • mozilla derived browser
    • flash
    • embedded media playback
    • ability to save content to content manager
  • must work in constrained memory environment
    • enhancements to data cache management
  • must be optimized for atom processor capabilities
    • sse, non branch prediction, 2d accelerated rendering
  • enhanced to leverage platform based touch input
    • flick
    • touch and zoom
    • tap and gesture symantics
  • enhanced to leverage new organic Moblin 2.0 user experience
    • live bookmark preview / thumbnail
    • dynamic tab presentation
    • automatic hardware based resolution transforms (eg 850x500 size web page automatically resized to 800x480)
  • investigate: make mozilla render into a clutter actor (similar to clutter-webkit) so that UX can be created using Clutter and so Mozilla can use the Clutter Widgets