Mozilla finding its way in the mobile browsing space

There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of interest so far among the tech community about Mozilla's announcement that it's getting more serious about mobile browsing, but dropping the Mimino project.

That could be because they don't seem to be in any great hurry about it. "Certainly not before 2008," Schrep says in the announcement post. Or maybe the raves are muted because mobile proponents have their noses a little out of joint because Mozilla developers are viewed as doubters coming late to the party.

I dunno, in the whole scheme of things in tech world news, making mobile content look and work better seems more significant longterm than a lot of the little wrinkles in the landscape that get attention pile-on treatment. I guess I'm just annoyed with the chorus in general.

The bit that's most interesting to me, and also something you don't hear much about, is Mozilla's existing Joey project, which lets you send stuff to your mobile device from your desktop computer. Example: you'd look up directions from a map service and pass it along to your phone instead of printing it out.

Joey uses accounts on a remote server. Could be I'm not getting something, or I believe in Dave Winer's decade-old vision for teensy web servers in everything too trustingly, but you wouldn't have to do that on a remote server, would you?