“Mozilla last week showed off a browser for the iPad, dubbed Junior,” Chloe Albanesius reports For PC Magazine.
“Junior is now a WebKit-based, full-screen browser that Mozilla said will be far superior to the built-in Safari browser Apple includes on its iOS devices,” Albanesius reports. “‘If you look at Safari on the iPad, it’s a pretty miserable experience, I think,’ Alex Limi, a product designer at Firefox, said during a recent presentation to co-workers. ‘It feels like it’s the one app where they took the desktop version, pulled out the UI, and slapped it into the iPad.'”
Albanesius reports, “As a result, Mozilla’s product design strategy team set out to build a better browser for the iPad. What they came up with is Junior, which ‘gives you a magazine-like feel,’ to Web browsing, said Mozilla designer Trond Werner Hansen… The iPad can also be a family device, used by parents and kids alike. As a result, Junior includes multi-user sign-ins (above), letting mom, dad, and kids preserve their own favorites and history. Junior probably won’t land in the App Store in the immediate future. It was built using Titanium, which allows for JavaScript coding. But it still needs to be ported into native code by iOS developers, ‘so there are still things to do,’ Hansen said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: iOS-wide multi-user support is one thing where Apple has really dropped the ball. Guess what, Apple, parents don’t want their kids to have access to full Web browsing, emails, text messages, etc. when they hand over their iPads.