Palm ships ARM-Native Proxy-less Browser

By Bernard Cole
iApplianceWeb
(09/27/02, 01:56:05 PM EDT)

Sunnyvale, Ca. -- PalmSource, Inc., has begun shipping the PalmSource Web Browser to Palm OS licensees.

Based on ACCESS' Netfront v3.0 browser, the PalmSource Web Browser allows wireless users access via traditional modem dial-up connections or with fast speed connections, such as 802.11 and Bluetooth solutions on their handhelds.

In addition to traditional browser functions, it gives users the ability to disable the download of images and JavaScript to improve download time if they are using slower connections. Web pages are rendered in their entirety on the handheld just as they would be on the desktop. It also includes SSL secuity features.

Because the browser is proxy-less the user's information does not reside on a server and instead the connection is made directly from the wireless device to the Internet. The browser also supports Internet standards, including the latest W3C specifications, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0, Dynamic HTML, cHTML (Compact HTML), DOM Level 1 and Level 2, CSS, and ECMA Script (JavaScript 1.5).

For more information to to www.palmsource.com.