Hello,

I did a preliminary port of Google Gears to Nokia's Linux-based Internet Tablet platform, Maemo. This platform has Gecko 1.9 -based browser. This port allows one to install the Gears extension to devices like Nokia's N800 and N810.

Anyone interested in this? I'd like to get feedback on what actions should be done next (if any).

The port is incomplete in the sense that not all the threading - related features work. In practice this is b/c of event dispatching. The port was primarily done in order to get the Database functionality to work.

About the code: The code is in a SVN repository with vendor branches. The changes should be relatively easy to spot (svn diff). The changes are not well- engineered, rather they just indicate the difference between gecko 1.8 and 1.9. This is to keep the delta as small as possible. In practice, if these modifications are wanted in the main codebase, the changes should be done a bit differently (==build abstractions around thread queues).

For further info, see: Issue 292: Support for Maemo platform http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/issues/detail?id=292

Unfortunately there are no prebuilt binaries for the device ATM, but I try to find a place to put those..

BR,