Fennec on e-paper
09.24.08 - 03:54pm
I spoke with Jaya Kumar today about his e-paper device and running fennec on it. He recently presented his work at the linux plumbers conference. Essentially this is an gumstix device with an e-paper display.
The device he showed me had to be controled remotely with a mouse. In his bag he had a new display witha touch screen and a better refresh rate. I’m really excited to see fennec running on that.
The next step is to really think about how to combat the limitations of an e-paper display. With today’s technology those are primarily the slow refresh rate and the gray scale graphics. Can we do something more intelligent with mapping of colors to greyscale than a simple translation of brightness. Perhaps all of the colors on a given page could be mapped out along a scale of contrast. Perhaps you just need to consider the colors of adjacent elements, is this simply a map coloring problem?
And when it comes to the refresh rate, can the browser make certain adjustments to accommodate the device automatically? Or do we just punt and some how give a hint to the web server during the request?
Madhava, Aza…. I’m looking at you
It is very amazing to see such a small device functions like a laptop…fennec have very friendly display on the screen .