In this whitepaper, Greg Haerr discusses the history, design tradeoffs, and evolution of the ViewML embedded Linux browser, and describes its internal architecture. Haerr writes . . .

“The rapidly expanding use of embedded Linux continually faces the challenge of deploying open source software, developed primarily for desktop/server environments, inside resource-constrained embedded devices. Today's desktop/server systems typically include hundreds of megs of RAM and tens of gigs of disk. But not so, embedded systems.”

“Existing browsers were either too large (like Mozilla) to fit the resource constraints of most embedded systems, or too small and incomplete, in terms of HTML parsing and other key functions. So we decided to design a new Linux browser — one specifically targeted to the needs of embedded systems.”

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