Woke up, got the kid to kindergarten, arrived at office, opened email and BOOM!
"Nokia to acquire Trolltech to accelerate software strategy" http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1185531 Let me get this straight... KHTML is developed by TrollTech for KDE, WebKit is a fork from KHTML, which is the star underneath Apple Safari Browser and also iPhone Platform, WebKit is also used by Nokia phones and Google's Android. >From the PR: "The acquisition of Trolltech will enable Nokia to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices [snip] and develop its Internet services business. [snip] third party developers will be able to develop applications that work in the Internet, [snip] Nokia's software strategy for devices is based on cross-platform development environments, layers of software that run across operating systems, enabling the development of applications across the Nokia device range. Examples of current cross-platform layers are Web runtime, Flash, Java and Open C." Two questions for now: - will be the mozilla browser framework the future of browsing ? Remember that Nokia just sold 437 million devices last year and iPhone just sold 3 million ... - will be the browser the ultimate user interface for mobile computing ? Remember that every browser is insecure by nature and there's not (yet) a way to interact safely with every mobile component, lets say, the phone camera ... For added bonus: - will this be the goodbye to Symbian and the hello for linux on Nokia ? -- //VD _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
