01-10-2003, 01:42 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,177
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Access NetFront 3.0 Reviewed
http://www.pdajunkie.net/pdajunkie_net_netfront30.htm
PDAJunkie.net has reviewed the Web browser NetFront 3.0 from Access. Steve Yee writes: "As we all know, the browser that comes with the Pocket PC has been somewhat behind the technological eight ball, lacking basic support for what many web pages utilize for standards. For users, this makes browsing the web with Pocket IE very unsatisfying. Thankfully, two web browsers have come out that allows users to have a more fulfilling web browsing experience. One of them, Bitstream's Thunderhawk, was reviewed earlier. The other browser that has recently been released is Access' NetFront 3.0. Access is a Japanese company that has been producing compact browser software for years in the telephone and non-PC marketplace. They even make a NetFront browser for the Playstation 2! Thankfully, they have taken their expertise in browser technology and brought it to the Pocket PC world. Their browser conforms to the following standards:
� HTML4.01, XHTML1.0, cHTML (Compact HTML), XHTML Basic 1.0
� CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 1, 2
� ECMA Script 3rd Edition (JavaScript 1.5)
� DOM (Document Object Model) 1, 2
Various image formats:
� GIF/animated GIF, PNG, JPEG, MNG, BMP
� HTTP/1.1
� SSL2.0/3.0, TLS1.0
� Cookie support
� Java plug-in, JV-Lite2 Personal Edition for Pocket PC"
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01-10-2003, 02:39 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 53
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Sadly....
Sadly, Access does not support Pocket PC Phone Edition. I pleaded my case with them on this issue and they said they may do it in the future. Perhaps if more people requested it, they would move in that direction.
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01-10-2003, 05:06 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 468
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Not a bad article, but the reviewer has thoroughly confused Java and JavaScript (two entirely different things).
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01-10-2003, 06:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 204
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I have used Netfront extesively the last 2 weeks since i and no pc and its a kick ass app, beter than thunderhawk, better than IE. Ony thing is missing is landscape view
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01-10-2003, 07:43 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 104
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Consisder using Virtual display for landscape. Yes, it would be nice if were built in, but VD is a very tight package these days.
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01-10-2003, 07:47 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 55
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Free Lanscape capability
Landscape view missing? I was told of this:
Pocketop keyboard driver for ppc (available at www.pocketop.net) is available for download. It offers a built-in landscape software. Though it requires a soft-reset everytime you want to switch modes, it is still quite a good solution.
Dave
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01-10-2003, 08:17 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 433
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of all the feature, does this mean i can now open a web based email using this brower? because PIE is definately a no no on this thing!!
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01-10-2003, 09:45 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 86
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Re: Free Lanscape capability
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Originally Posted by daveshih
Landscape view missing? I was told of this:
Pocketop keyboard driver for ppc (available at www.pocketop.net) is available for download. It offers a built-in landscape software. Though it requires a soft-reset everytime you want to switch modes, it is still quite a good solution.
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The Pocketop keyboard driver's Landscape mode is a "corrupted" version of Nyditot's Virtual Display. It does work, however, it restricts you to 320x200 only.
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01-10-2003, 09:50 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 86
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by vincentsiaw
of all the feature, does this mean i can now open a web based email using this brower? because PIE is definately a no no on this thing!!
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I've been able to use Exchange 2000's Outlook Web Access, Earthlink's Web Mail, AT&T Wireless' Office Online Web mail (in WAP Mode), and it's been reported (but not personally run by myself, so take it for what it's worth) that Hotmail works if you change the User-Agent string to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)".
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01-10-2003, 10:22 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 98
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I've downlaoded the trial version, although I have not yet had an opportunity to try it out. So this may be a stupid question, but here goes. Can it be used to view offline content ie Avantgo, so that you can have tabs for different downloaded channels/pages etc?
Thanks in advance
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Linear Mode
