did anyone sign up for the alpha of skyfire? i wish i had known about it before, within a couple of hours registration was closed.
Nope. I would rather see Fennec move along personally!
This is mostly because Mozilla weave + Fennec + laptop+desktop+workstation+Cellphone= unified browsing experience
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Re: OilCan
I have recently stumbled across Oilcan, the greasemonkey style browser for android http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/. I've tried it and the default stuff is all very impressive, and to be honest i wanna use it. But its not fully finished, and the Dev has just been employed by google and seems to have abadoned the project. The browser is basic, it appears to be based on an old version of the google browser.
Whats the future of this application? since it was a proof of concept. The only futures i can see are;
he continues development by himself - unlikely
he adds this functionailty nativily to the google browser - unlikely as he's very smart and likely to be on other more interesting projects
The community take up the slack (thats us) use he's code and create a super brower - what i'd quite like to happen. the source is available, and it appears to be quite simple. I think that if it was to be patched into the jf1.41 multitouch brower it would be a killer application.
http://code.google.com/p/android-cookbook/source/browse/#svn/trunk/OilCan?state=closed
Whatcha all think?
DarkFlare
anyone considering this? these are pretty cool features.
well personally im studying the oilcan code, mostly for the user scripts aspect and it seems fairly easy to implement, and so im hacking away the other features to begin with as i dont see much of a use for filling in forms using my android contacts or scanning barcodes and getting there values. So basically im removing the intent code.
My plan is to edit the main browser to add in the userscript functionailty, but im new to the android platform so it could take a while. I can program in java though which gives me a good head start.
Anyone else interested in helping out?
I just found a site where someone is developing user scripts for the Android browser.
At the moment its only a proof of concept but after watching the video is coming along very nicely
http://oilcan.jsharkey.org/
Hopefully it wont be too long before we can get our hands on it
You alreday can get your hands on it.
http://www.jsharkey.org/blog/2008/12/15/oilcan-greasemonkey-on-steroids-for-android/
APK: http://www.jsharkey.org/downloads/OilCan-100.apk
They got some cool scripts on their website that I would like to use but do they work with the g1? It says some will but the top says scripts for firefox. Also... how would we apply the scripts on the g1? Does the app look for them on the sd or what?
EDIT: Nevermind it says you can load them from the sd or browse to them yourself
i guess i should change it from "coming" to "here"
thanks mannyb
Custom Scripts
EDIT: He figured it out between page refreshs
He released this like a month ago before he went to work for google. It was a nice proof of concept but he was done working on it and was asking for someone to take it over.
atrackdog reported to me that someone has OilCan 2.0
I have not found a dload link yet...
It would be nice if someone picked up where he left off, because OilCan 1.0 is buggy as hell. I'd like to see it built into Steel.
I was recently thinking new web browsers like Google Chrome 6.0,Opera 10.60 and Safari 5 are supporting HTML5 and other new web standards and my question is XDA-Developers using those New Standards?.If NOT i think they should in order for a better and much faster experience on the site also for new additions to the site
WHAT DO YOU THINK???????
(feel free to comment on this post and say whatever you want about it concerning the topic)
BY THE WAY I LIKE THE NEW REDESIGN,GOOD JOB DEVELOPERS
(Vbulletin 4 has been RELEASED)
The forum is powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.5. I do not think XDA developers can do much.
As previous poster said they aren't actually coding the site. They are just running a forum application on their server. They can customize it, add in mods,and such. Now when Vbulletin changes then sure, but thats a long long long way away.
i think so to so v bulletin should change the codings on the forums
Ok I'll answer this one too. HTML5 is in no way ready for release. Its way too buggy and not able to keep up with flash. Ok I said it. Thats why all these companies are making iphone flash players rather then switching to HTML5.
What you mean HTML5 is no ready for release? HTML5 is a specification.
Yes but it is not ready for mass scale usage. Its too buggy right now and leaves to big of a void in between flash and HTML. ,, also I thought it was a language? hypertext markup language , but I guess its the same thing potatoe, pototoe.
How can a spec be buggy?
first of all max power Html5 is ready and its already being used by 100´s of sites including Youtube also Html5 is a new different type of coding It brings many new features xda could really use and Vbulletin should start a new version of the forum software with the new web standards
Features (API)of HTML 5:
The canvas element for immediate mode 2D drawing. See Canvas 2D API
Specification 1.0 specification [13]
Timed media playback
Offline storage database (offline web applications). See Web Storage [14]
Document editing
Drag-and-drop
Cross-document messaging[15]
Browser history management
MIME type and protocol handler registration.
Microdata
Geolocation
Local SQL Database
HTML 5 VIDEO
Ok lets see if I can answer some of these.
1st, hundreds of sites across the internet is not a bunch or even 00.000000000000000000001% of the web.
2nd HTML5 of youtube is a joke, look at the quality. Theres a reason you goto youtube and it takes you to the flash version.
3. Hulu just came out and said there is no possible way they could provide their service on HTML5, the technology just doesn't exist yet.
So while I know you guys are chomping at the bit for HTML5 to take over the world and slay the evil adobe monster, it ain't gonna happen. Because as HTML5 matures so does Flash.
Great idea, we should do a flash forum!
:S
no offense,Dont be so dumb in no way will HTML 5 overtake flash dont worry about that and the reason youtube takes you to the flash player videos is because not all the videos are uploaded with HTML 5 format.Adobe´s Flash is good but it wont be used as much by HTML 5 because Html 5 does not require as much space as flash and it does more than flash will ever do
dont forget WebM
job portal
As previous poster said they aren't actually coding the site. They are just running a forum application on their server. They can customize it, add in mods,and such. Now when Vbulletin changes then sure, but thats a long long long way away.
Hello XDA'lers,
I'm proud to present you my latest app, called OpenOffice Document Reader.
Boring part about its history following... Feel free to skip it if you are lazy like me
I've already released it a few months ago out of frustration that there's NO native OpenOffice (LibreOffice) viewer for Android out there. However, first versions contained a lot of bugs, were slow and simply... bad.
Then, I started working together with my colleague Andi and rapidly improved the app a lot (from 3 to 4 stars average rating in Android Market) and seeked some interest from an Australian wine company, the official OpenOffice.org project and others.
However, let's go on with the interesting stuff...
OpenOffice Document Reader, Android's first native OpenDocument viewer, features most of the things you'll demand from a viewer, including zoom, copying, text search and other little gadgets almost none of you will ever use.
Originally it was meant to integrate seamlessly into the Android system (no icon in the launcher, no built-in file chooser), but since I mostly respect my user's opinion I've added both of the features I never planned to add (namely an icon in the launcher and a built-in file chooser - contributed by David).
Otherwise you're still able to open your documents using other apps, like GMail, Dropbox, Box.net, the official stock Android browser and others... (please keep reporting me what apps you're using to open your documents!)
That's it. I can't wait to read how you like it.
If you didn't already download it while reading this: Download at Android Market!
Maybe one thing I should add: Yes, we're working on editting. Hopefully Andi, TomTom and I can get it working soon for you.
Have a nice and open-sourcy day
Tom
PS: Yes, this is - and will be for ever - free open-source software released under GPL or something like that. Feel free to fetch the code at GitHub and don't forget to take a look at the underlying library called JOpenDocument by Andi.
PPS: Sorry for the awful amount of hyperlinks, but they tell you more than thousands of words.
Mozilla would like to announce the availability of*x86 builds of Firefox forAndroid. If you've got an x86 device and haven't tried Firefox - it screams. Even if you've been testing x86 builds on Nightly over the past couple of months, we'd really appreciate you taking the time out to test our latest beta build with your normal flow. One pro is that our Beta builds are automatically updated in the background through Google Play.
Our plan is to iron out any remaining x86-specific bugs over the next couple of weeks and release support as part of FF22.0.
Thanks for your help and ongoing support!
- Aaron, QA Engineer at Mozilla
Details:
Firefox Beta on the Play Store
Direct Download
Devices on this list should theoretically be compatible - our testing has been with the Motorola Razr I (XT890)
Ways to provide feedback:
Submit crash reports when they come up
File a Bug- please use this link
Check*Bugs already Filed*- check if your issue has been filed and chime in
Email us - because you're lazy
Post here
Bromite browser from https://www.bromite.org/ or https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases is a fantastic privacy browser and the one i used to use.
However it had it's last update in december 2022 so that's a 5 month gap to current browser version, i have no idea how many vulnerabilities have been discovered since then but it might be time to find a new browser because what is privacy without security?
Suggestions?
I'm using Brave Private Brower ( latest release dates 2023-05-24 ). Includes Adblocker, Firewall + VPN, Search, and Nightmode!
Brave Private Web Browser - Apps on Google Play
Fast internet with Adblock! Secure, private browser and incognito search engine.
play.google.com
It's base is Chromium the Open-Source-Browser by Google. Because Google changes the source code of Chromium almost daily, you should always receive the latest version.
I know brave, don't like it.
Would be using firefox but some parts of the mobileapp are proprietary, mozilla is under googles bad influence to much.