An experimental Mobile Browser, built on the top of Qt, QML, WebKit - HTML5 enabled.
Orange Labs UK has worked for long now in the area of Mobile Web Technologies, producing a number of internal projects and documents in the area. The advent of HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and all the related technologies is making the Mobile Browser world move at an unprecedented speed. We believe that Mobile Browsers will enable to deliver to Mobile device a new, richer class of WebApps. These WebApps will enjoy an everyday-smaller gap compared to all-native applications.
Build a WebKit based browser using Qt and all the cutting edge related technologies (like QML). The work takes into focus 3 areas:
- Browser Chrome, focused on User Experience and Usability
- Browser Core, focused on the WebCore functionalities that are already in WebKit and, possibly, building in advance some of them
- Browser Extensions, focused on designing a Framework to implement mini-in-browser apps, to deliver small, focused services
- Document properly the C++ code. Documentation is a bit too "sparse".
- Need to learn the Doxygen tags used by the Qt guys - I know, I should have already done that
- Tune the performances: there are so many different optimization in
QWebSettings
that can be applied - Produce a Symbian Build: for now we have only tested on Maemo5/N900
assets/
- It's sort of workspace of the graphic assets of the projectbuilds/
- Stable builds, divided by Target Platform (Maemo5, Symbian, ...)mobilebrowser-1.0/
- contains the actual source code of the projectscreenshots/
- Screenshots, organized by date
This project started from the [qt-prefix]/demos/declarative/webbrowser/
(see on qt.gitorious.org), then evolved into what is today.
THANKS to the Qt/Nokia guys for the amazing job they do with the Framework and the tons of high quality, inspiring examples and demos always provided.
Thanks to the Nokia Meego Developer Edition team: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900#MeeGo_1.2_Community_Edition_for_Nokia_N900 - expecially Vesku Hartikainen http://twitter.com/#!/veskuh for his contributions and interest in the project
Currently the maintainer of the project is me, Luca Colantonio [email protected] https://twitter.com/#!/lucabox
A BIG credit goes also to the one who started the project: Ivan De Marino [email protected] https://twitter.com/#!/detronizator
Some of the icons found under assets/ are taken from http://glyphish.com (released with Creative Commons Attribution)