Web Browser for S60

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Web Browser for S60 is a web browser for the S60 mobile phone platform developed by Nokia. The browser is based on a port of Apple Inc.’s open source WebCore and JavaScriptCore frameworks which form the WebKit rendering engine that Apple uses in its Safari Web browser. These frameworks were themselves based on software ported from the KDE project (KHTML and KJS).[1]

Unlike other mobile phone browsers, like Pocket Internet Explorer and Opera Mini which reformat pages to a suitable width for small mobile phone screens, Nokia's web browser shows 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.[2]

The initial version was lacking support for the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and Wireless Markup Language (WML); version 2 of the browser introduced support for these standards.[3]

Nokia announced the project in June 2005,[4] and made it available in November.[1] At the 2006 World Wide Web Conference, Nokia announced that it was releasing the source code for its port of WebKit back to the community.[5]

The version included on Nokia phones is named the Nokia Mini Map Browser, after the afore-mentioned "mini map" feature.[6]

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  1. ^ a b Nokia PR (November 02, 2005). Nokia introduces a new Web browser for S60 3rd Edition. press.nokia.com. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  2. ^ Eugenia Loli-Queru (December 13, 2005). An Overview of Nokia's KHTML/WebCore-based S60 Browser. OSNews. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  3. ^ Eldar Murtazin (December 28, 2006). Description Nokia Web Browser S60 (OSS Browser). mobile-review.com. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  4. ^ Nokia PR (June 13, 2005). Nokia develops a new browser for Series 60 by using open source software. press.nokia.com. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  5. ^ Nokia PR (May 24, 2006). Nokia releases 'Web Browser for S60' engine code to open source community. press.nokia.com. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
  6. ^ Nokia Mini Map Browser. nokia.com. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.

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