Chinese, Japanese and Korean rendering in MicroB engine

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Maemo CJK Support project provides excellent support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean input and rendering.

I’ve installed the 4.0 Beta Release of maemo CJK on OSSO 1.0 with the latest version of the Mozilla based browser for maemo.

Here are the results:

http://www.google.co.jp/
without fonts	with fonts
http://www.google.co.kr/
without fonts	with fonts

See installation instructions here:

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Extra fonts for MicroB engine

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I was able to get Arabic and Chinese fonts rendering with MicroB engine.

1. Go to http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.org/ with your Nokia N800 device
2. Install Arabic True Type Font and Chinese True Type Font
3. Reboot the device

See some screen shots below…

Wikipedia home page before the fonts packages were installed:

Wikipedia home page after the installation:

BBC Arabic and BBC China rendering:

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MicroB Party

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Hacking is nice but sometimes it is good to get out and have some beer.

Here are some pictures made by Romaxa at Ristorante Gastone and Kaisla pub:

http://picasaweb.google.com/romaxa/MicroBParty

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Mozilla based browser for Nokia 770

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Nokia 770 owners could now try our latest Mozilla based browser.

More information is available here: MicroB for 770.

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Mozilla based browser for maemo: 2nd public release

Friday, August 17th, 2007

I have been using this release for at least couple of weeks.
It is much more stable and has many big fixes for annoying bugs from the previous release. See more about improvements here.

The second public release has also support for Google Spreadsheets.

This is how it was in the 1st release:

Now it looks much better:

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Mozilla based browser for maemo is out!

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

After the huge efforts spent by the browser team members to develop, tune and polish Mozilla engine, it is finally available for public. Big-big-big thanks and congratulations to all who was (and is) involved in the project, guys at Nokia and INdT, Mozilla community for great help and patience

Quick links:

• Mozilla based browser for maemo web pages: http://browser.garage.maemo.org/
• Garage project pages: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/browser/
• Source code: https://garage.maemo.org/svn/browser
• Maemo announcement: http://maemo.org/news/view/1184699585.htm
• Bugs

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