Fabio Cevasco's Profile

I've ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.

Fennec will bring a true Web experience to mobile phones and other non-PC devices, yet take advantage of the specific opportunities for new and useful user experiences enabled by mobility and telephony. Fennec will do what users need out of the box, enabling access to their favorite content and rich internet applications. It will integrate smoothly with device features, including easy initiation of phone calls from Web pages, access to local search, maps and directions. It will solve basic usability challenges have generally prevented the mobile Web experience from being pleasant and enjoyable, even though people have a critical need for data when on the go.

Mitchell Baker: The first thing that we have done is make sure that the size and memory requirement of our code are more suitable for cell phones and related devices. We hadn't actually focused on that in the past years. We focused on building the user experience, and the [software developer] ecosystem, and making a browser that's flexible. So the performance characteristics of the code that runs Firefox are dramatically different than they were six months ago.

We've also started the prototype development. There's a project called Fennec, which is another type of fox.