Re: [NTLK] App porting

Not sure if this is possible as I haven't programmed for the newt but maybe a web browser like camino may be a better starting point as I'd guess it has a smaller more focused code base being for Macs only. Funny I was just saying after the classilla release for OS9 that next someone would be porting mozillia to NOS! Good luck :)
Joe Reilly
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Armenta <josharmenta@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:45:54
To: <newtontalk@newtontalk.net>
Subject: [NTLK] App porting

Hello fellow newtoneers,

I was wondering before I attempted if this has been/is being done.

I'm going to "attempt" (C is not my best programming language by FAR,
I'm a MySQL guy, nor have I really dealt with newtscript) to build
firefox for the newton. That being said, I do know that there is a
lot of code in Firefox that is way overpowered for what the newton can
do. I am a firefox user myself, but I also wondered what features that
are in Firefox would be considered spurious for what we do on the
Newt, and what features would be considered necessary.

The reason I would be interested in attempting this build would be for
the native SSL implementation in firefox; If this build is successful,
then it may be possible to port thunderbird as well....but we'll see.
(Which would allow me to send gmail on the newt!)

Anyway, my main questions for the list are:

1. Would this project be necessary and/or worthwile.
2. If it is, what features from firefox would need to be retained?
3. What features should we dump if necessary?

If anyone would like to help with this, feel free to contact me. I
wish I could give a time estimate for this, but as a student, it is
really hard to say.

Thanks,
Josh Armenta

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