Mozilla Fennec powered by E Ink

Alexander Turcic · 01-20-2009, 02:13 PM

With Mozilla soon to release the first beta of its mobile Firefox browser dubbed Fennec, what better way to spend your time than to make it work on an actual E Ink development kit? Jaya Kumar did just this, and although lack of memory seems to be a constraining factor, the browser looks surprisingly usable, definitely good enough to induce uncontrollable drooling.

[via ars technica] (thanks Mycropht for the tip!)

David Munch · 01-20-2009, 03:03 PM

Wow! Amazing feat!

Hopefully, we'll get more memory soon, from manufacturers!

Adam B. · 01-20-2009, 04:57 PM

I wanted to mention that Jaya Kumar is one of the people who has received an iLiad from OpenIliad.com. Let's hope he can bring this great work to the iLiad community.

jayakumar · 01-20-2009, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adam B.

I wanted to mention that Jaya Kumar is one of the people who has received an iLiad from OpenIliad.com. Let's hope he can bring this great work to the iLiad community.

Thanks for the push Adam. :-) Yup, its on my to-do list.

btw, I've posted some better videos here that give you a better idea of performance. Don't know why Ars used the worst looking one, ie: the first one that I posted.

01-20-2009, 02:13 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 12,730 Karma: 71589 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Sony Portable Reader	Mozilla Fennec powered by E Ink With Mozilla soon to release the first beta of its mobile Firefox browser dubbed Fennec, what better way to spend your time than to make it work on an actual E Ink development kit? Jaya Kumar did just this, and although lack of memory seems to be a constraining factor, the browser looks surprisingly usable, definitely good enough to induce uncontrollable drooling. [via ars technica] (thanks Mycropht for the tip!)

01-20-2009, 04:57 PM	#3
Adam B. Addicted to Porting Posts: 1,694 Karma: 7132 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Indianapolis, IN Device: iRex iLiad, Nokia 770, Samsung i760	I wanted to mention that Jaya Kumar is one of the people who has received an iLiad from OpenIliad.com. Let's hope he can bring this great work to the iLiad community. __________________ Openiliad.com - Your source for iLiad Software and Documentation

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David Munch Scholar Posts: 96 Karma: 1252 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Denmark Device: None :"(	Wow! Amazing feat! Hopefully, we'll get more memory soon, from manufacturers!