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Old 09-21-2005, 03:08 AM   #6
Laurens
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Originally Posted by Chaos
Netfront, Opera Mini, and (I think) Pocket IE are all more-or-less from-scratch apps, written for the PPC, including the rendering engine (especially Netfront - no desktop version of Netfront even), but Minimo is using Gecko...
You hit the nail on the head there. Adapting Mozilla's rendering engine to run well within the constraints of a handheld environment is a huge task. It remains to be seen whether they will be succesful in this endeavour.
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