Just a heads up — I’ll be using bsmedberg’s Status Board to push updates about the Android porting work; as other people get involved, you should see their updates there as well.

I purchased a Droid when they came out.  It’s my first Android device, and it’s been an interesting experience.  I am not a fan of the iPhone, and I’ve been using a Blackberry for the past few years (an 8700 first, then the original Curve, then the updated 8900).   The Droid is a great [...]

I’ve been looking to understand the Android OS better, so that I can answer some questions and create plans for getting Gecko/Firefox running on Android-based devices.  One of the first questions I asked was, “How do Android apps start?”  They’re clearly separate processes while they’re running, but it wasn’t clear how they were launched.  It [...]

WebGL introduces two interesting concepts that I think have application outside of WebGL, the CanvasArrayBuffer and CanvasArray WebGLArrayBuffer and WebGLArray. This is all subject to change, of course, though this is what the current Gecko (and others’) implementation looks like. In particular, the Canvas prefix in the names might change soon. Edit 12/2: these types [...]

Starting with Firefox 3.6, only well-known components shipped with Firefox will be loaded from the application components directory.  Any other components (both binary and script) will be ignored.  This work might also be backported to the 3.5 branch, but that decision has not been made yet.  There are a number of reasons why this decision [...]