EBay as seen on Netfront 3.1 on a Nokia Ngage QD.

NetFront is a microbrowser for embedded devices. Mainly deployed on mobile phones, NetFront is available for multiple platforms and has been deployed in digital TVs, set-top boxes (STB), PDAs, web phones, game consoles, e-mail terminals, automobile telematics systems and other device types. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A microbrowser (sometimes minibrowser or mobile browser) is a web browser designed for use on a handheld device such as a PDA or mobile phone. ... Digital television (DTV) uses digital modulation and compression to broadcast video, audio and data signals to television sets. ... The term set-top box (STB) describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. ... Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ... It has been suggested that Internet phone be merged into this article or section. ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a popular video game console. ... The term telematics is used in a number of ways: The integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT (Information and Communications Technology). ...

NetFront supports a variety of compact architectures while offering low power consumption, easy customization and a broad range of plug-ins.

Developed by Access Co. Ltd. of Japan, NetFront was designed to function as an embedded browser. Born from the necessity to render HTML on low-power handsets, NetFront evolved from the embedded device up, rather than being shrunk from the desktop down. ACCESS Co. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...

This browser converts tables in a Web page into a vertical display, eliminating the need to scroll horizontally. The user can zoom in and out on Web pages from 25% to 100%, and can select or scroll anywhere on a page with the stylus on Pocket PC devices. The software can open up to five windows and the user can tab to any one of them. The Dell Axim x30, a Pocket PC A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a handheld-sized computer that runs a specific version of the Windows CE operating system. ...

Compact Netfront

Compact NetFront Plus is a Netfront version designed for the next-generation of mobile wireless services, including international i-mode phones. NTT DoCoMos i-mode is a wireless Internet service popular in Japan and is increasing in popularity in other parts of the world, such as the Israel (Cellcom being the main company to sell i-mode phones and service there). ...

Compact NetFront Plus supports Compact HTML, which is popular in Japan; WML (Wireless Markup Language), a markup language based on XML which specifies the content and user interface for WAP-enabled devices used by overseas services; and XHTML Basic, a subset of XHTML, which is expected to become the new global standard. C-HTML (for Compact HTML) is a subset of the HTML markup language that works on DoCoMos i-mode mobile phones. ... WML can stand for more than one thing: Wireless Markup Language, markup used in mobile phones with WAP Website Meta Language Wesnoth Markup Language, language used in Battle for Wesnoth game This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication. ... XHTML Basic is an XML-based structured markup language primarily used for simple (mainly handheld) user agents, typically mobile devices. ... The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but with a syntax that conforms to XML syntax. ...

The software is also provided with the middleware and operating systems essential to a wireless Internet environment, such as a TCP/IP protocol stack, AVE-TCP, which supports IPv6 and the WAP Wireless Profile, a JV-Lite 2 Wireless Edition Java environment for cellular phones, and a AVE-SSL secure communications protocol and encryption module. The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication. ... The Java platform is the name for a computing environment, or platform, from Sun Microsystems which can run applications developed using the Java programming language and set of development tools. ...

The latest version of Netfront supports the following new features:

• Ajax support
• New RSS viewer libraries
• SMIL 2.1 support
• SVG 1.2 + microDOM support
• Document Viewer

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Supported operating systems

• Symbian OS: Series 60, Series 80, and UIQ
• Palm OS
• BREW
• REX OS
• Linux: (MontaVista Linux, MontaVista Graphics, QtEmbedded, Qtopia, GTK+, Red Hat, and others)
• Windows CE family: Windows Mobile for Pocket PC/Smartphone, CE.NET
• OSE
• QNX
• VxWorks
• ITRON
• Others: OS-9, pSOS, Nucleus RTOS, etc.
• PSP, PSP Web Browser
• PlayStation 3, PS3 Web Browser

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External links

• The NetFront Website
• An article on NetFront
• NetFront product information