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RE: Netfront?
Handspring already announced the Treo 600 browser will be powered by Netfront:
RE: Netfront?
I personally don't mind the different web browsers, as long as the licensees can agree on a method of invoking the system's browser from a program and as long as any handheld-specific extensions are common among them.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com
Way off topic
That being said, I'll go out on a limb and say the code base may be a little large for a handheld device.
I (and everyone else) want nothing more than a browser on the Palm that will render most website correctly.
-- Fammy
RE: Way off topic
Edward Green
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RE: Way off topic
Thanks,
Ricky
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The stylus is mightier than the pen!
RE: Way off topic
As far as I know Mozilla is not available for PocketPC or for Symbian either!
RE: Way off topic
Opera on Palm OS would be a very nice thing. They have a small rendering engine already deployed on Symbian devices, and they have very good handheld optimization technology to make sites work on small screens.
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Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com
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RE: Way off topic
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
RE: Way off topic
It beggars belief that neither Palm not PPC devices yet have a good proxyless browser with proper standards support.
My company intranet is W3c compliant but the only browser that I can use to access it is Opera. Netfront on the PPC doesn't support pop-up links, nothing on the Palm comes anywhere near compliance.
As you point out Opera will not port to Palm or PPC in the forseeable future and I for one am not jumping for joy about Web Pro being installed as the default browser.
The version that shipped with my TT is appalling. I know hundreds of users seem happy with it but it is just not up to the job and I very much doubt whether this new version will either.
Bah!
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RE: Way off topic
Escape is a very nice Java based browser that I would't mind seeing on handhelds.
http://www.espial.com/index.php?page=prod_escape_over
Edward Green
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