Ted Patrick had a recent post about a new virtual machine within the Mozilla Tamarin project (essentially a new branch of the project). For those unfamiliar with Tamarin, a summary is provided here.

From what I can make of this news, Adobe has a new build of a VM called “Tamarin Tracing”.

From what I could gather, it’s a VM that targets constrained environments allowing ActionScript 3 bytecode to be executed under low memory and less powerful processor conditions … that essentially means non-PC; which includes, of course: portable/mobile devices.

So, all in all, it looks like Mozilla is stepping up their efforts towards mobile browser support, and this is some response from Adobe. Makes sense … since I just caught a recent article in ME Magazine about a mobile version of FireFox in the works, as well as a catching a posting from within the Mozilla team a while back … so it’s pretty clear the Mozilla crew are serious about pursuing a more sophisticated browser on this front … albeit a bit more aggressively.

Overall, not much of a surprise, given that there is already a precursor mozilla-like browser in the N80x series tablets on the maemo platform. Also, Mozilla has been experimenting with Minimo on Windows Mobile as well (destined to be replaced with a full-on browser, no doubt).

So, in summary: Mozilla is investing more into mobile web, Adobe sees this and is starting to branch out with Tamarin, meanwhile mobile web continues to evolve and grow in many regions.

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