Firefox Mobile Companion
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In the same week that W3C was holding a Mobile Web Seminar in Paris, France, Firefox Mozilla was holding the Firefox Summit 2006 in the Mozilla World Headquarters, in Mountain View, CA. This is a future-looking opportunity to see how Firefox should be developing. One particularly interesting session was on Firefox Mobile Companion.
It’s interesting to see how the views of the Firefox browser developer community echo what is being discussed by the mobile standards developing crowd. The session was led by Doug Turner and some extracts from his Quick notes on the discussion follow:
What would a “Mobile Companion for Firefox” be?
* More phones are shipping with “real” browsers
* Browsers on phones suck and the content on the Internet is not designed for small screens
* Plug-in per site to “compress” to mobile format (Google Maps, etc. - like http://www.google.com/xhtml)
* Bookmarks and password manager from Firefox should work on your phone
* Laptop is the current “home base” with all data, but is too big. Anything to bring your computing environment with you (autocomplete, history, notes, bookmarks, etc.) is good.
* What about cell-network data-plans? Are they reasonable? Many people have unlimited data plans, but most seem not too.
* Encourage web developers to create mobile-friendly sites (W3C has an initiative for this)
* Games? They are huge on phones, could Firefox/Minimo bring in games?
As in Paris, it’s clear that all see huge opportunities for Firefox Mobile but are highly aware of the very major hurdles to overcome.
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