(Click for larger MiniMo screenshot)Turner
announced in February of this year that he was working on a port of Minimo to Windows CE and issued a general call to Windows CE developers to help out in the effort. "The heavy lifting is mostly done with respect to porting," said Turner at that time, but a lot of work still needed to be done in terms of Windows integration.
Turner's MiniMo mini-roadmap outlines four dot-releases over the next four months, codenamed respectively "dancing," "leaping," "piping," and "drumming." Planned new features include a unified Windows/Linux interface, Debian and Windows installers, a build for Smartphone 2003, and documentation for customization using
XUL (XML user-interface language). The releases will also address a number of bugs; see the
complete mini-roadmap for a full list.
Who's MiniMo's Daddy now?
CNET reported last summer on rumors that the MiniMo project was
funded by Nokia. Nokia has not specified what browser its forthcoming
770 Internet Tablet (pictured at right) will use. A prototype reportedly ran the Opera browser, which Nokia licenses for many of its phones.
Nevertheless, most of the recent activity within the MiniMo project, and much of the planned activity, relates to
Windows CE support. Nokia seems unlikely to back such improvements, and Microsoft even less. One possible MiniMo benefactor on the Windows side could be Intrinsyc, which offers a
PDA phone software stack based on Windows CE.
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CNET reported last summer on rumors that the MiniMo project was funded by Nokia. Nokia has not specified what browser its forthcoming 770 Internet Tablet (pictured at right) will use. A prototype reportedly ran the Opera browser, which Nokia licenses for many of its phones.
