Wed - July 13, 2005

Mobile web


K750i is doing HTML


Yes, is doing HTML browsing with a little help from its friends, actually: a tiny (51K) commercial ($20) Java/J2ME browser named WebViewer* with javascript, cookies, image scaling (via their proxy located in Canada – I know because google.com gets indirected at google.ca) and cache. Here's what the producer claims that this baby knows:

· Browsing of HTML content
· Graphics, including GIF, JPEG, PNG**, TIFF and BMP formats
· Bookmarks
· History
· Configurable cache
· JavaScript
· Cookies and cookie management
· Forms
· Security via HTTPS (if supported by the device), basic authentication
· HTTP, HTTPS, mailto, FTP, and gopher URLs
· Incremental rendering
· Viewing of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, ZIP, Corel WordPerfect and Adobe PDF documents
· Viewing of images at their full size or scaled to fit the device's screen width
· Optical character recognition for faxes and scanned documents
· Easy to navigate with no horizontal scrolling required
· Support for Unicode and many character encodings

Not bad. Not at all. I don't think I'm zen enough to try OCR-ing something, so don't ask me how it works, please. Oh, and don't ask me about my bill, either. Übergeek‑ism takes sacrifices.
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* I bought it from here, in case you want to give it a try yourself.
** I heard that some other browsers kinda have difficulties with this stuff. Tough.

Posted Wed - July 13, 2005 at 01:04 PM
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