Re: Firefox and Ubuntu touch ?

On 22/02/2015 23:05, Paul [sabret00the] wrote:
> But Qt is quite widely supported right? It's certainly worth
> considering Qt as the base of our Linux approach if it means we could
> ship a single universal browser for both touch and desktop. The
> discussion will need to be raised for Windows too with their
> universal apps and thus being able to ship to mobile users as well as
> desktop users with a single effort. Maybe I've not thought this
> through enough but the only downside I can think of is the initial
> additional effort required, but after that it gives us much longer
> term opportunities and in new markets.

There actually is or was a Qt port of Firefox in a Qt quondam, Qtque
futurus sort of way. The Firefox on Qt port has been periodically
abandoned and revived. I think in the recent past a Nokia employee was
submitting Qt patches[1]. It shouldn't be too hard (for someone familiar
with the codebase) to get something working again.

[1] Wasn't the Raspberry Pi port Qt based?

Phil

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