Fennec will bring a true Web experience to mobile phones and other non-PC devices, yet take advantage of the specific opportunities for new and useful user experiences enabled by mobility and telephon... More
Delays are inevitable, no matter what the undertaking — the starts just can't line up every time. Such is the case at Mozilla this week, with word coming that the much-anticipated next version of the popular Firefox browser won't be in the hands of users when the ball drops on Friday.
Dana Blankenhorn on ZDNet asks an interesting question today: "Where Should Mozilla Go From Here?" It's hard to believe that the company's Firefox browser turns only five years old today. Stephen Shankland also weighs in on where Mozilla and Firefox should head next. I'm in favor of Mozilla becoming a more independent company, so that it can push its own initiatives in flexible ways, and I also think it has a huge opportunity in the mobile browsing space.
We've written about Fennec, Mozilla's mobile browser, a number of times. It's now in its fourth public beta, and GigaOm reports today that Mozilla CEO John Lilly wants it to be just as disruptive on mobile devices as Firefox is on the desktop. “We wanted to build a browser that did everything — Javascript, CSS, Flash, SVG, video and audio," says Lilly. "What that meant was we had to wait for a while for devices to get better to handle this modern browser.” Check out more at GigaOm.