Brad\’s Blog

Several people have been asking for an updated build of xulrunner for maemo.  I know the tinderbox I set up in December has been broken since mid January.  The good news is the build/release team is taking over these responsibilities and will be doing an infinitely better job than I have in maintaining it.  The [...]

Doug blogged friday about getting winEmbed and xulrunner going in the windows mobile emulators.  We were both using the windows mobile 6 professional sdk as the target (aka Pocket PC), because that’s the configuration that was checked into svn.  Unfortunitely, those binaries did not run on the HTC s730 I have to test with, which [...]

no, really….its freakin out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzmOpb7aRxE
Not surprisingly, it crashed after a couple minutes

I’ve been trying to figure out why the string being passed to XPCOMGlueStartup (and subsequently XPCOMGlueLoad) was “disappearing.”  Turns out it wasn’t.   My debugger just couldn’t see it.  As you can see from this screen shot, when I decided to print the content of the variable to stdout (mostly to prove to myself that I’m [...]

I want to clarify the point of this post. I am not attempting to make the point that hg is a bad tool. I am sure it is very helpful to some users. My point is that, IMHO, it does not solve an existing problem with Mozilla that justifies the inherent pain of switching from [...]

Wow…posting those UI designs got a whole lot more attention then any one could have guessed.  I supposed people just love eye candy.  In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, these are not final designs.  In fact, these are just the first of what I hope to be many suggestions that  will be posted, debated and [...]

On Friday I posted a few screen shots and descriptions of my proposed user interface for non-touch screen phones.  The assumption is that these devices will have QVGA screens (240×320 pixels), a 5-way directional pad and two soft keys. The discussion page is here, please feel free to check it out and leave feed back. [...]

So today my Mac decided to get hung 5 minutes before our weekly mobile call.  No one told me running two VMs, open office, safari, firefox (in each VM and natively), mail etc. etc. etc. at the same time was a bad idea….
Anyway, not wanting to miss out on all the exciting developments in mobile [...]

We’ve got a new tinderbox set up and producing builds for the n800/n810.  You can find it here:
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Testing
As of now, it is just making sure that the tree builds for these targets.  We aren’t running any tests to see if the builds actually run, let alone run well.  If any one is interested in setting [...]

I have created debian installer packages (.deb files) for armel and i386 for the builds I blogged about several weeks ago. You can download these directly for the i386 scratchbox or armel based device running OS2008. Once you’ve downloaded the .deb file, you can install it by running the following command as [...]