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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nokia's new browser revealed
Feature-wise it's seemingly well inline with PC browsers, despite being optimised for mobile phones (or at least smartphones). Interestingly it doesn't support OMA WAP/WML, yet HTML and XHTML. So much for mobile standardisation. The trend is clearly towards browsing any web page rather than mobile-optimised HTML or WML pages, yet there are still many WML sites.
Some noted new features (quote):
* The minimap creates a full screenshot of the web page ... and with the help of a small rectangle the user can navigate at any place of a given page almost instantly
* supports Netscape-style plugins and porting them from other platforms should be relatively easy
* Find As You Type
* The browser will autodetect RSS feeds mentioned on the HEAD of an HTML file
There are some omissions though (quote):
* there is no WAP support anymore, at all (WebCore doesn't support WML)
* there is no support for tabs
* Nokia's QVGA phones use a 2.8" screen while their new high-resolution 352x416 screens are barely 2.4". This means that a lot more text information that fits on the high-res screen has to be much smaller in size than on the QVGA Nokia screens
* Webcore doesn't check the return value of malloc() for example (but seemingly Nokia has fixed this on their own)
If you didn't understand any of the acronyms above, rest assured you are not alone.
An Overview of Nokia's KHTML/WebCore-based S60 Browser - OSNews.com
Some noted new features (quote):
* The minimap creates a full screenshot of the web page ... and with the help of a small rectangle the user can navigate at any place of a given page almost instantly
* supports Netscape-style plugins and porting them from other platforms should be relatively easy
* Find As You Type
* The browser will autodetect RSS feeds mentioned on the HEAD of an HTML file
There are some omissions though (quote):
* there is no WAP support anymore, at all (WebCore doesn't support WML)
* there is no support for tabs
* Nokia's QVGA phones use a 2.8" screen while their new high-resolution 352x416 screens are barely 2.4". This means that a lot more text information that fits on the high-res screen has to be much smaller in size than on the QVGA Nokia screens
* Webcore doesn't check the return value of malloc() for example (but seemingly Nokia has fixed this on their own)
If you didn't understand any of the acronyms above, rest assured you are not alone.
An Overview of Nokia's KHTML/WebCore-based S60 Browser - OSNews.com
