What is Minimo?

The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on code-size and runtime footprint reduction, and porting to small consumer devices. We hope to make Minimo the browser of choice on small devices, or machines with limited system resources; taking advantage of Mozilla's support for a broad and comprehensive set of standards and the variety of content on the web, proven security, international support, and cross platform capability.

For end users, the same browser you are used to running on your desktop and laptop will be available in a slimmed down form on your palmtop, but it will have full support for accessing the variety of content you are used to viewing. For content developers, the same set of standards based rich content can now be extended to a number of new users accessing the web over wireless handheld devices.

I have just had an epileptic fit!!!!!  :shock:

I for one would like to see tabbed browsing on mobile devices, it seem perfect for the form factor.... Then again this is not firefox (eg i don't think it has tabbed browsing) but is using Gecko (nice rendering engine).

Minimo, the Mozilla browser for mobile devices, is poised to move beyond Linux PDAs and onto Windows CE devices, according to the Mozilla Foundation.

Current versions of Minimo work only on Linux-based PDAs (personal digital assistants), but a future version will debut this summer on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system, which is used on a variety of Pocket PCs and smart phones.

Lead Minimo developer Doug Turner posted the first development build of Minimo for Pocket PC 2003--which is based on Windows CE--on a Web site last week. Turner said he hopes to release a stable version later in the year.

"If you try the build now you will find there is a lot of Windows integration work that needs to happen," Turner said. "Another thing you will notice is the UI (user interface) for the application is terrible. I really need your input and Windows CE coding skills here."

Current versions of Minimo work only on Linux-based PDAs (personal digital assistants), but a future version will debut this summer on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system, which is used on a variety of Pocket PCs and smart phones.

its on linux now but will be on ms smartphones soon

btw where do you linux pdas from cos i havnt seen any  :?:

Isn't Windows CE what windows or PPC's used to be called - so it is being ported to PPC's which run as phones and NOT to SmartPhones (such as the Typhoon) Don't forget they are two different, non compatable OSs.

Or have I got it wrong?

From what I read in the dev stuff, Windows CE is the base on which everything is built. Tablet PCs, PDAs and smartphones are based on Windows CE and then each is expanded and tweaked according to it's primary function. Theoretically, as long as the CPU is the same and no hardware specific function calls are made, an app should run on a PDA and a smartphone. Theoretically because the screen sizes are so different that a PDA app would probably be cut off on a phone and the like. It would have to be a pretty simple app. .net apps are different because they are compiled into pseudo-code, not CPU specific code. A .net app written for a smartphone, therefore, should be able to run on your desktop as long as there isn't anything hardware specific being used. It'll be a small window on the desktop, but it will run.

Tablet PC is built on XP.

... link to download minimo:

http://www.meer.net/~dougt/minimo_ce/

I have tested builds 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 - loads VERY slow on i-mate SP3 and eventually does NOT work. Softkeys appear to be disabled and no other keys apart from 'Home' work.