Monday, November 12th, 2007
Another WebKit win with Android
WebKit keeps chugging away. I hear more and more developers talking about how they use Firefox for Firebug debugging, and WebKit nightly for browsing as it is so fast. In mobile, WebKit had another win as you get it with Android.
If you take a look at this video, 3:00 minutes in, you will see WebKit on Android. It looks similar to the iPhone implementation, with the touch screen interface and all. There is also hardware zooming on that particular phone (Android isn’t about one phone, it is an open mobile platform).
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Did he just woke up?
Why is he making fun of Christopher Walken?
It’s Conan O’Brien with his hair dyed black.
No need to introduce yourself Sergey since we all know who you are, of course, and thx for welcoming us to Mountain View because I thought I was watching a video. Wow, you guys are just fillin the screen with enthusiasm.
Oh, and Android looks pretty cool - very even.
It’s Ray Romano or Cosmo Kramer.
HAHAH @ Christopher Walken.
Since google is choosing webkit, for now, for this platform, will webkit based browsers be the new firefox?
I know Google has PR people.
This video was made on their day off.
Heh, I wonder how long it takes people to hack Android onto the iPhone. Shame that the iPhone doesn’t have 3G… But otherwise, it’s pretty good hardware-wise, it seems. I can appreciate the style too — and I hated the old iPods.
I wonder what the hardware specs are for that cool prototype — it looks like a Nokia N-Series or something. But better. Looks like I’d rather have that instead of the iPhone — I mean, why is Apple neglecting full Flash support? It’s a pretty big part of the “full Internet”, so unless they’re planning on “surprising” their customers later with features that should’ve been there in the first place (hmm, familiar?), I’d say that they’re missing a few of the essentials. Then again, maybe it’s a deal with Google — “you convert some Youtube videos to the new Quicktime format, because our iPhone application can only play that (so, uhm, we promise to stay away from Flash and Java for a while; we don’t want Android on our iPhone anyway!)”.
But why??? The hardware specifications don’t seem to be a limiting factor in any way. They could’ve at least co-operated with Sun or OpenJDK to produce a compatible Java VM by now. After all, it “runs a special version of Jaguar”!
I explored the ramifications of WebKit adoption by Apple competitors Nokia, Adobe and Google in:
“Runtime wars (1): Does Apple have an answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX?”
http://counternotions.com/2007/11/15/runtime-wars/
and
“Runtime wars (2): Apple’s answer to Flash, Silverlight and JavaFX”
http://counternotions.com/2007/11/15/apple-runtime-answer-2/