Fennec on Android
blog.vlad1.com
blog.vlad1.com
- I needed to scroll right to get at the preferences, which is not what I would normally expect for Android.
- Pressing the phone's Back button is a NOP instead of going to the previous page. To navigate history, you have to instead scroll right and use the buttons of the browser.
[Edit]- The address bar is always shown, which seems like a waste of screen real estate, but if you tap it, you can get at bookmarks.
- At the bookmark view, tapping on the address bar does not bring up the touch keyboard. I had to use my qwerty to type in a URL (thank god for Motorola Droid :p) [/Edit]
tl;dr
It disdains all the controls one expects an Android device to have and settles instead for controlling stuff from within the app UI itself, which I found jarring.
we will also be working hard on integrating with the Android platform and UI. (Current versions of Fennec are designed to fit in more with Nokia’s Maemo-based N900.)
The address bar is not always shown. It scrolls away as you leave thet op of the document.
Your comment "At the bookmark view, tapping on the address bar" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If I ignore the bookmarks part, for me on Nexus One, tapping the address bar definitely does bring up the soft keyboard.
Overall, I'm very excited about the progress this shows. I'm sure getting it to work at all was the hard part. Hooking up a few keypresses to do the actions you expect is surely coming, and soon.
Opera Mini 5 for Android 605KB Fennec alpha 10.2MB