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I just gave it a spin and here are some my thoughts. I know some flaws are to be expected in an alpha build. - I needed to scroll right to get at the preferenc

by donaq 16y ago

I just gave it a spin and here are some my thoughts. I know some flaws are to be expected in an alpha build. - I needed to scroll right to get at the preferences, which is not what I would normally expect for Android. - Pressing the phone's Back button is a NOP instead of going to the previous page. To navigate history, you have to instead scroll right and use the buttons of the browser. [Edit]- The address bar is always shown, which seems like a waste of screen real estate, but if you tap it, you can get at bookmarks. - At the bookmark view, tapping on the address bar does not bring up the touch keyboard. I had to use my qwerty to type in a URL (thank god for Motorola Droid :p) [/Edit] tl;dr It disdains all the controls one expects an Android device to have and settles instead for controlling stuff from within the app UI itself, which I found jarring.

ZeroGravitas 16y ago
It's not doing that intentionally, it's just because they ported to a different phone platform first. One of the developers commented on the Techcrunch thread: we will also be working hard on integrating with the Android platform and UI. (Current versions of Fennec are designed to fit in more with Nokia’s Maemo-based N900.)
arantius 16y ago
This is an _alpha_ release. This is the exact same software as written for Maemo, not yet customized for the Android platform. So the menu and back buttons aren't hooked up yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. The address bar is not always shown. It scrolls away as you leave thet op of the document. Your comment "At the bookmark view, tapping on the address bar" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If I ignore the bookmarks part, for me on Nexus One, tapping the address bar definitely does bring up the soft keyboard. Overall, I'm very excited about the progress this shows. I'm sure getting it to work at all was the hard part. Hooking up a few keypresses to do the actions you expect is surely coming, and soon.

by donaq 16y ago

ZeroGravitas 16y ago

It's not doing that intentionally, it's just because they ported to a different phone platform first. One of the developers commented on the Techcrunch thread: we will also be working hard on integrating with the Android platform and UI. (Current versions of Fennec are designed to fit in more with Nokia’s Maemo-based N900.)

arantius 16y ago

This is an _alpha_ release. This is the exact same software as written for Maemo, not yet customized for the Android platform. So the menu and back buttons aren't hooked up yet. Rome wasn't built in a day. The address bar is not always shown. It scrolls away as you leave thet op of the document. Your comment "At the bookmark view, tapping on the address bar" doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If I ignore the bookmarks part, for me on Nexus One, tapping the address bar definitely does bring up the soft keyboard. Overall, I'm very excited about the progress this shows. I'm sure getting it to work at all was the hard part. Hooking up a few keypresses to do the actions you expect is surely coming, and soon.