Mozilla announces the arrival of Junior, a browser designed for browsing on Apple iPad. Here are the first previews and a presentation video.
Mozilla has decided to invest part of its resources in the development of browsers useful for navigation on Apple devices.
Thus, after the release – which occurred some time ago – of the Firefox Home for iPhone application, here comes Mozilla Junior, browser for Apple iPad.
The starting point for Junior’s development is Webkit, the same rendering engine on which Safari is based: therefore, following in the footsteps of Apple’s in-house browser, the idea was to work on something different from Safari itself, more focused on the peculiar needs of an iPad user.
An preview of the capabilities and appearance of Mozilla’s Junior has been released, which graphically presents full-screen without top navigation bars, nor additional tabs or windows.
Two buttons are simply placed on the display: one is for going back, the other is the “+” (Plus) button.
Their position is strategic, as they appear on the screen precisely where the thumbs would naturally rest, mimicking the action of holding the Apple tablet.
A single click on these buttons will allow access to the series of options that can be activated: favorites, the search field, recent tabs, and so on.
What to place “under” these two elements is at the user’s discretion, at least for now; however, this is a project still under development, so it’s not certain that the final release won’t bring further innovations.
Here is a presentation video of Mozilla’s Junior, illustrated here directly by Alex Limi and Trond Werner from the Mozilla team.
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