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Web Browser for S60 or the S60 OSS Browser, is the default web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

for the S60

S60 platform

The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic...

mobile phone

Mobile phone

A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...

platform. It is the default browser for many old phones running on the Symbian

Symbian

Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user...

mobile operating system

Mobile operating system

A mobile operating system, also known as a mobile OS, mobile software platform or a handheld operating system, is the operating system that controls a mobile device or information appliance—similar in principle to an operating system such as Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux distributions that controls a...

and all new phones running on Symbian. It was developed by Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

. The browser is based on a port of Apple Inc.’s open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

WebCore

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

and JavaScriptCore

WebKit

frameworks which form the WebKit

WebKit

rendering engine that Apple uses in its Safari

Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the...

Web browser. These frameworks were themselves based on software ported from the KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

project (KHTML

KHTML

KHTML is the HTML layout engine developed by the KDE project. It is the engine used by the Konqueror web browser. A forked version of KHTML called WebKit is used by several web browsers, among them Safari and Google Chrome...

and KJS).

Unlike some other mobile phone browsers which reformat pages to a suitable width for small mobile phone screens, Nokia's web browser allows the user to see a thumbnail image of the full web page which they call "mini maps" and allows users to zoom into the areas they want to read.

The initial version was lacking support for the Wireless Application Protocol

Wireless Application Protocol

Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer...

(WAP) and Wireless Markup Language

Wireless Markup Language

Wireless Markup Language , based on XML, is a markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol specification, such as mobile phones. It provides navigational support, data input, hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms, much like HTML...

(WML); version 2 of the browser introduced support for these standards. Hence the Nokia Services (WAP) browser was the default browser on initial device shipments of this platform.
There are two types of S60 browser

S60v2 Browser

Supports:

It supports HTML.
It supports WAP 2.0(xHTML).
It supports cookies and JavaScript.
Wide web pages can be formatted for mobile viewing.
We can download more than one files.

Drawbacks:

Multi-window browsing is not supported.
It doesn't compress pages, which puts a greater strain on the phone's processor and bandwidth usage

S60v3 browser

This browser is more advanced than the s60v2 browser.

Supports:

HTML
WAP 2.0(xHTML)
Cookies and JavaScript
Multi-window browsing
Many files (up to 10) can be downloaded at once.

S60 5th edition

The S60 5th edition (i.e. touch screen) supports Kinetic scrolling

Disadvantages:

Copy paste support is poor. If you have a device with no Control-key or Pen-key, you can not copy paste in most web forms. With older Nokia models, like N95 or E90, this was not a problem, as N95 had a Pen-key and E90 had a Control-key. New N86 and N97 do not have such keys. However, E72, which was released in 11/2009, has a Control-key.
Flash is only supported on newer more powerful handsets (although Flash Lite on other devices allows support for basic flash animations).
some jQuery effects are not supported (fadeIn and slideDown)

Nokia Browser v7.3 (Symbian^3 / Symbian Anna)

Phones: Nokia N8

Nokia N8

The Nokia N8 is a Symbian^3 smartphone of the Nokia Nseries and Nokia's flagship device of 2010. It was released on 23 September 2010 at the Nokia Online Store before being released in markets around the world on 1 October 2010. The N8 features a 12 megapixel camera, a pentaband 3.5G radio and...

, Nokia E6

Nokia E6

The Nokia E6-00 is a smartphone based on the Symbian^3 "Anna" operating system made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia E72 as the new Symbian business mobility solution from Nokia....

, Nokia E7

Nokia E7-00

The Nokia E7-00, also known as Nokia E7, is a business-oriented QWERTY smartphone by Nokia from the Nokia Eseries It was announced at Nokia world in September 2010 together with the Nokia C6-01 and Nokia C7 and started shipping in February 2011...

, Nokia C6, Nokia C7

Nokia C7-00

The Nokia C7-00 is a Symbian^3 smartphone from the Nokia Cseries. The C7-00 features a , 640 x 360 pixel capacitive touchscreen...

, Nokia X7

Nokia X7-00

The Nokia X7-00 is a Symbian^3 Smartphone from the Nokia Xseries. It is the first Xseries phone with Nokia's Symbian^3 platform. It is also the successor to X6-00, which was the previous multimedia touchscreen phone, with similar features and specifications in the series...

User interface supports:

Multi-window browsing
Kinetic scrolling
Multi-touch gestures pinch open and pinch close for zoom in/out (only for capacitive touch devices)
Split-screen virtual keyboard support for live update of input fields
Bookmarks
RSS Web feeds
VGA screen support

Supported Techniques:

HTML 5 support
CSS 3 support:
JavaScript 1.8 support
Viewport meta tag support
Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) support
Flash Lite 4.0.3 support

Apart from Symbian^3 devices (Nokia N8, E7-00, C7-00, C6-01) and new devices (among others Nokia E6

Nokia E6

The Nokia E6-00 is a smartphone based on the Symbian^3 "Anna" operating system made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia E72 as the new Symbian business mobility solution from Nokia....

and Nokia X7), some older devices will also get an update of the browser with a firmware update.The Nokia N97

Nokia N97

Nokia N97 is a touch screen mobile phone in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard...

will not be updated, in contrast to the Nokia N97 mini.

Nokia Browser v7.4 (Symbian Belle)

Phones: Nokia N8

Nokia N8

, Nokia E6

Nokia E6

The Nokia E6-00 is a smartphone based on the Symbian^3 "Anna" operating system made by Nokia. It supersedes the Nokia E72 as the new Symbian business mobility solution from Nokia....

, Nokia E7

Nokia E7-00

, Nokia C6-01

Nokia C6-01

The Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 smartphone from the Nokia Cseries. The C6-01 display features comes with a 3.2in AMOLED display with capacitive touchscreen capabilities and Nokia's ClearBlack technology for improved outdoor visibility...

, Nokia C7

Nokia C7-00

The Nokia C7-00 is a Symbian^3 smartphone from the Nokia Cseries. The C7-00 features a , 640 x 360 pixel capacitive touchscreen...

, Nokia X7

Nokia X7-00

, Nokia 603, Nokia 700

Nokia 700

The Nokia 700 is a Symbian Belle ultra slim smart phone, announced on 24 August 2011. It was released in September 2011.-References:...

, Nokia 701

Nokia 701

The Nokia 701 is a multi-touch Symbian Belle smartphone released in Q4 2011. It has a very bright and robust 3.5" IPS-LCD display with 640 x 360 pixels. The brightness of the display is 1000 nits and the used Gorilla Glass makes the display very robust. Nokia announced the phone on 24 August...

According to all above given information for the Nokia Browser v7.3 applies also for v7.4. Additionally, the user interface is changed in comparison to v7.3 as follows:

Previous/next page, Bookmarks, Multi-window navigation, menu buttons at the bottom
Direct access to RSS Web feeds from the menu
Links can be shared via SMS, Email, or Bluetooth

Supported Multi-touch gestures:

Pinch open and pinch close (unpinch) for zoom in/out (only for capacitive touch devices)
Double tap at the top for page up
Double tap at the bottom for page down
Double tap in the middle for resizing
Tap and hold (long press) on links opens a menu to copy the link or open a new window
Tap and hold (long press) and subsequent pan to select text for cut-and-paste

History

Nokia announced the project in June 2005, and made it available in November. At the 2006 World Wide Web Conference

World Wide Web Conference

The International World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international academic conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web...

, Nokia announced that it was releasing the source code for its port of WebKit back to the community.

The version included on Nokia phones is named the Nokia Mini Map Browser, after the afore-mentioned "mini map" feature.

External links

Nokia Mini Map Browser
- Nokia Mini Map Browser
- S60 info - Web Browser for S60
- S60 Browser Blog - Old S60 blogs

S60WebKit (Rendering engine
Layout engine
A web browser engine, , is a software component that takes marked up content and formatting information and displays the formatted content on the screen. It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer...

)
November 2010 mobile browsers comparison/speed test by Steve Litchfield of Allaboutsymbian.com

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