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Nokia Releases S60 Web Browser into Open Source

i4u.com — Nokia today announced the source code release of their S60 Web Browser to the open source community.

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  • redblur, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6don't think I've ever seen an article hit the front page w/ no comments yet.
    • Metabolife, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14That's because everyone is too busy hacking away at the code.
    • carrmatt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It happens from time to time. Everyone is too busy submitting stories but no one has the time to read them.
    • carrmatt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@metabolife
      hacking what code? Just delete your friends to get rid of the eye-sore green font and the craptastic mouse-over effect. Done.
    • TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it's just because it's sort of an "off" topic.
  • Eugenia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4More info about this browser here:
    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12965
    Please note that ALL *new* Nokia "S60 3rd Edition" phones come with two browser: the browser mentioned here, and another one -- a straight port from S40 -- that is able to do WAP. You see, the Webcore-based S60 browser does not support WAP, neither it can reformat tables to fit on screen.
    • howie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2What's new, exactly?

      The S60 browser is based on KHTML, which is LGPL. Nokia has no choice but to make their code available. This is not news.

      The browser was also announced a long time ago. The browser is not news.

      So where's the actual news here?
    • jethro1010, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well I didn't know, so it's news to me.
      Thanks
  • drizek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5w00t, go khtml
  • pope7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7It has the words 'open source' in it! Dugg!
  • feanor512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hopefully now someone will backport it to S60 1st and 2nd edition.
  • RADicalSatDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is great, this should give Opera devs incentive to work even harder. I love competation and I love Opera!
    • pornel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Opera for S60 passes Acid2 test and supports AJAX. I wonder if they have anything left to work on ;D
    • drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2webkit passes acid2 as well, im not sure if thats already in this new browser though.
  • hordak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder how it will compare up against Opera Mobile; my current browser of choice on my Nokia 6680.
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