Comments on: Skyfire Symbian closed testing started http://www.simplysymbian.com/2008/07/27/skyfire-symbian-closed-testing-started/ News, applications and accessories for your phone Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:29:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jared eldredge http://www.simplysymbian.com/2008/07/27/skyfire-symbian-closed-testing-started/comment-page-1/#comment-4804 jared eldredge Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:24:21 +0000 http://www.simplysymbian.com/2008/07/27/skyfire-symbian-closed-testing-started/#comment-4804 as symbian-freak says, if firefox can render it, so can skyfire (SF quotes this from skyfire). i have a theory: i think each user account on skyfire (you need to authenticate with user/pass to launch the skyfire client) loads up a modified firefox session at skyfire.com. i think this modified firefox runs on a modified X server, with the skyfire client acting as a remote X session. even the name impleis this SkyFire = Cloud based Firefox. that's my theory anyways. i'm running skyfire on my N95-1 and i can say, clicking on an RSS feed bring up a FAMILIAR LOOKING 'live bookmarks' page... i only tried rss a few minutes ago - and note that asking to 'add as live bookmark' did nothing at all. i've got screenshots up at my crappy little blog - it's never updated, so don't bother bookmarking me - just go look at the screenshots if you care (hosted at share.ovi.com) http://bitflung.blogspot.com/ -bit as symbian-freak says, if firefox can render it, so can skyfire (SF quotes this from skyfire). i have a theory:

i think each user account on skyfire (you need to authenticate with user/pass to launch the skyfire client) loads up a modified firefox session at skyfire.com. i think this modified firefox runs on a modified X server, with the skyfire client acting as a remote X session. even the name impleis this SkyFire = Cloud based Firefox.

that’s my theory anyways. i’m running skyfire on my N95-1 and i can say, clicking on an RSS feed bring up a FAMILIAR LOOKING ‘live bookmarks’ page…

i only tried rss a few minutes ago – and note that asking to ‘add as live bookmark’ did nothing at all. i’ve got screenshots up at my crappy little blog – it’s never updated, so don’t bother bookmarking me – just go look at the screenshots if you care (hosted at share.ovi.com)

http://bitflung.blogspot.com/

-bit

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