{"id":525422,"date":"2010-04-12T21:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"15724 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-04-12T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:37:22","slug":"firefox-ported-to-webos-pdk-to-blame-for-this-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525422","title":{"rendered":"Firefox ported to webOS, PDK to blame for this madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2010\/04\/firefox-pdk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2010\/04\/thumb_450_firefox-pdk.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox running on a Palm Pre\" class=\"lightbox2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that&rsquo;s Firefox of the Linux variety, running on a Palm Pre. It&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxymoronical.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/Mossop-Status-Update-2010-04-12\">the work of Dave Townsend<\/a>, a developer for Mozilla that works on Firefox (among other open source projects). We don&rsquo;t have much other info on it, but given the interface, we and Palm Developer Relations Team chief Dion Almaer came to a pretty easy conclusion about it: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dalmaer\/status\/12073274745\">this is the kind of stuff you can do with the PDK<\/a>. To quote Kool-Aid Man, OH YEAH!<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Dave has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxymoronical.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/Firefox-running-on-the-Palm-Pre-mostly\">&quot;how I did it&quot; article on his blog<\/a>. Instructions are absent, which is understandable given the hobby project not-even-in-alpha status of this project. All-in-all, it was about two days of work porting the Android project version of Firefox onto webOS, and it&#8217;s still buggy and the cramming of the Firefox UI onto the Pre&#8217;s screen isn&#8217;t exactly a great system. But it&#8217;s potential, and potential is something we&#8217;re rather fond of here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><em>Thanks to Bo for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=9ygiieSiZzQ:7Eg924TS2G0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=9ygiieSiZzQ:7Eg924TS2G0:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=9ygiieSiZzQ:7Eg924TS2G0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=9ygiieSiZzQ:7Eg924TS2G0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=9ygiieSiZzQ:7Eg924TS2G0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/9ygiieSiZzQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&rsquo;s Firefox of the Linux variety, running on a Palm Pre. It&rsquo;s the work of Dave Townsend, a developer for Mozilla that works on Firefox (among other open source projects). We don&rsquo;t have much other info on it, but given the interface, we and Palm Developer Relations Team chief Dion Almaer came to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}