LG Telelcom, the smallest of three telecom operators in Korea launched mobile full browsing service with an attractive fixed-rate plan that allows unlimited data download within 6 month and 1G bytes after then for 6,000 won ($6) per month. Other telecom operators also have provided mobile full browsing service, but the rate plan is very expensive. For example, SK telecom charges about 3072Won(3$) per 1MB for data transfer. The full browser was provided by Infraware that is a Korean company.…

I have been to Bangalore, India for a while. I spent busy time so I couldn’t write blogs for the time. As you know, there are so many IT companies in Bangalore. Most of them are from the US, EU. So now, Bangalore is called the silicon valley of India. Therefore, excellent SW engineers now have come to here from each state of India and even other countries. They are well educated in good universities of technology and use English well .…

I’d like to introduce a presentation about open source in Asia. The speaker is Gen Kanai who is working for Mozilla Corporation. He talked about Mozilla community & open source activities in Asia such as: Situation of Mozilla Community in Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan Three barriers to participate in Open Source Projects such as culture, language and education Examples of Open Source Project in ASIA (Ruby, Red flag linux, and Dzongkha Debain Linux) The leader of Korea Mozilla Community, Channy Yun commented the situation of Open Source Activities in Korea.…

I posted an article about supporting native interfaces in Mobile Firefox. Byt the way, I found information regarding my post from here. This paper explained the native interfaces I talked as sensors on device and introduced how to send their sensed data to servers via the Web. The sensor means a device that reads data from the user’s physical environment. By the way, I am interested in how to get data from the native interfaces via web browser.…

I have tested the microB patches based on Mozilla1.9(Firefox3 alpha6 pre.) - The microB package contains more 200 patches and several patch sets. - It is released with Firefox3 alpha6 pre. now. Two kinds of test case are used. - Tinderbox DHTML Test - CSS Rendering Target Device : PAX320, RAM 256MB And I got the following results on TestGtkEmbed in Mozilla. * Tinderbox DHTML Test: The microB patched Mozilla is 2.…

Mozilla project and Senecac college have worked together on Mozilla related research and development projects. And they are opening some courseworks for Mozilla and open source. The results are now posted on the project wiki so you can find various projects and technical reports made by students. Particularly, there is the lab of “Real World Mozilla” that leads students to learn and practice how to develop on the Mozilla platform from building to testing Firefox.…

I’d like to share my ideas on native interface support in Mobile Firefox. These ideas are based on Christian’s Mobile Goal. http://www.christiansejersen.com/blog/2007/11/20/mobile-goals/ Goal Provide mobile web application environment which can use native interfaces. - It can make XUL add-ons & web applications use native interfaces through JavaScript Types of Native Interfaces (Most of mobile platforms support APIs for easy of use for camera, GPS, contact, and etc..) There are two types of native interface:…

There are submitted patches for Mobile Firefox on the Mozilla wiki. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Patches My colleague tried to apply the png patch to Mozilla and get a good result related to performance improvement. As you know, we can build the libpng fixed point routines like the above patch. (Use #define PNG_NO_FLOATING_POINT_SUPPORTED in mozilla/modules/libimg/png/mozpngconf.h ) In this case, he can get 8.6% performance improvement. It’s great. I think this patch is valuable to use on Mobile Firefox.…

I attended the Korea Mozilla Community Annual Party 2007 last week which was hosted by Channy. Channy is the leader of KoMoCo, a contributor for localization of Firefox. Actually, his company, Daum has supported many open source communities including KoMoCo. So, I always thank for Daum and his efforts. For more details, I’d like to share some blog articles regarding the party. KoMoCo Anual Pary Photos in Flickr Mozllia Japan Gen Kanai’s introduction about KoMoKo anual party John’s Blog…

As expected, Mozilla finally has started the beta test of Firefox3 after finished the alpha8 test. Actually, the official version of Firefox3 should have been released this time. However, the release date is behind the schedule as the alpha test was recently finished. Anyway, we expect that Firefox would be officially released in the first half of next year The major feature of Firefox is to use Cairo as the graphic engine for rendering all of things.…