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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: eji on November 03, 2005, 01:54:06 am

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: eji on November 03, 2005, 01:54:06 am

Just the other day I read over an OE Forums thread where Zaurus users were bragging about having the only full-featured handheld Web browser.

Well, it looks like Nokia has got something good lined up with the S60 (http://www.series60.com/browser). From their own page (apologies in advance for all the marketing buzzwords):

"The new Web Browser for S60 enables full Web browsing experience on mobile devices. The browser is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore open source components that are used by Apple’s Safari Internet browser. These components are based on KDE’s Konqueror open source project.

Benefits of Web Browser for S60

Superior user experience: innovative features and superior Web compliance provides one of the best Web browsing experiences on mobile devices, enabling use of full Web pages as they were designed
Extensibility: collaboration of S60 with the open source community will benefit the entire S60 community as it fuels innovation and ensures support for the latest Web technologies
Differentiation: S60 browser makes it easy to develop rich S60 applications on top of the browser, using open APIs and latest Web technologies
Interoperability: wide support of industry standards including W3C's HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, CSS 1, 2, & 3 (partially), DOM 1, 2, SVG-Tiny, and Web standards such as, ECMAScript, Netscape style plug-ins such as Flash Lite and audio"

Any chance someone could get a hold of this and try to get it over to the Z? Sounds like this would be perfect for pdaXrom.

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: adf on November 03, 2005, 02:08:19 am

I think it would be qt based.  doable in pdax maybe, but firefox is pretty good.
would be a big help for opie or guylhem, I bet

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: pgas on November 03, 2005, 02:21:20 am

I'm not so sure it's qt based because of this:

http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ (http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/)

and the fact that the nokia tablet does not use qt

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: lpotter on November 03, 2005, 07:33:23 am

It is not based on Qt.

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: Ragnorok on November 04, 2005, 11:46:49 pm

- I'm interested that it uses a "QT adaption layer", KWIQ, that run on Gtk+.  I've seen X/Qt, and it works pretty well.  Is this "Qt/X"?  (grin)

Title: Nokia's New Browser For Handhelds/smartphones
Post by: adf on November 04, 2005, 11:52:15 pm

I was guessing based on its roots.
It is actually less interesting imho if it is gtk- there are already good oss gtk browsers