Friday, October 8, 2010

NetFront Browser Concept Version 4.1 Release for Windows Mobile

Leveraging the latest NetFront™ Browser core available for the Windows Mobile platform, NetFront Browser v4.1 for Windows Mobile Concept Version features significantly improved JavaScript™ execution performance. NetFront Browser v4.1 boasts JavaScript execution performance that is twenty times* faster than the JavaScript execution performance seen in NetFront Browser v3.5. NetFront Browser v4.1 delivers a significantly better browsing experience overall but especially for websites that make heavy use of complex JavaScript.

Features of "NetFront Browser for Windows Mobile Concept Version":
· Tabbed Multi-Window support
· HTML 4.01
· XHTML 1.1
· cHTML (Compact HTML)
· XHTML Basic (XHTML subset: W3C Recommendation)
· WML1.3
· CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 1, 2 (Partial)
· ECMAScript 3rd Edition (JavaScript 1.6 equivalent)
· DOM (Document Object Model) 1, 2 (Partial)
· Image format: GIF, Animation GIF, PNG, JPEG, BMP
· HTTP/1.1
· SSL (Secure Socket Layer) 2.0/3.0, TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0
· Multi-windows (Function for displaying up to 5 tabbed windows)
· Cookie
· Bookmark
· Internet search
· Browsing mode (PC View, Wide PC View, Simple View, Text View)
· Animated Zoom
· PageMap
· Column Rendering
· Virtual Pointer


Requirements:
· ARM compatible CPU, PXA2xx (XScale)/PXA2xx compatible CPU
· Windows Mobile 5/6/6.1 Pocket PC (English, Japanese)


Limitations:
· The trial period for this software expires on March 31, 2011
· Plug-ins are not supported
· No technical support is available for this concept version
· If NetFront Browser is installed on external storage, the application’s behavior becomes unstable when the device is turned on or off
· Integrated Windows Authentication for IIS is not supported


What's New in This Release:
· High Speed JavaScript Engine
· The browser core version has been updated to version 4.1.1.
· The Canvas tag is now supported.
· The requested features from previous browser version have been added.
· The unstable behavior when accessing certain websites has been fixed.


Customers who have already ported NetFront Browser v3.5 can migrate to NetFront Browser v4.1 with minimal effort because the APIs and porting layers for both browser versions are compatible.

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