EBay as seen on Netfront 3. 1 on a Nokia Ngage QD.

The PSP Web Browser is based on NetFront

NetFront is a microbrowser for embedded devices. A mobile browser (also called a microbrowser or minibrowser) is a Web browser designed for use on a Mobile device such as a Mobile 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. Digital television (DTV is the sending and receiving of moving images and sound by discrete ( digital) signals in contrast to the analog signals used by A set-top box (STB or set-top unit (STU is a device that connects to a Television and an external source of signal, turning the signal into Voice-over-Internet protocol ( VoIP, vɔɪp is a protocol optimized for the transmission of voice through the Internet The term telematics (synonymous with Telemetry) is used in a number of ways The integrated use of Telecommunications and Informatics

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. ( founded in April 1979 and incorporated in February 1984 in Tokyo Japan by Arakawa Toru and Kamada Tomihisa is a company providing a variety of software for connected and mobile devices such For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. 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. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure

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. A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware Specification for a Handheld -sized Computer ( Personal digital assistant The software can open up to five windows and the user can tab to any one of them.

Compact Netfront

Compact NetFront Plus is a Netfront version designed for the next-generation of mobile wireless services, including international i-mode phones. NTT DoCoMo 's i-mode is a Wireless internet service popular in Japan.

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 DoCoMo 's I-mode Mobile phones used in Japan Don't change "Extensible" WAP is an open international Standard for Application layer network communications in a Wireless communication environment The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, or XHTML, is a

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 (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of Communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks Internet Protocol version 6 ( IPv6) is an Internet Layer protocol for packet -switched internetworks. WAP is an open international Standard for Application layer network communications in a Wireless communication environment Java refers to a number of Computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing Application software In the field of Telecommunications, a communications protocol is the set of standard rules for data representation signaling authentication and error detection required to

The latest version of Netfront supports the following new features:

• Ajax support
• New RSS viewer libraries
• SMIL 2. RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works – such as Blog entries news headlines audio and video – in a standardized SMIL (ˈsmaɪl "smile" the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C recommended XML Markup language for describing 1 support
• SVG 1. 2 + microDOM support
• Document Viewer

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. Symbian OS is an open Operating system, designed for Mobile devices with associated libraries, User interface frameworks and UIQ (formerly known as User Interface Quartz by UIQ Technology is a Software platform based upon Symbian OS. Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) is an embedded Operating system initially developed by U BREW ( Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones. Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks MontaVista Software is a Software developer that develops Embedded Linux system software development tools and related software MontaVista Software is a Software developer that develops Embedded Linux system software development tools and related software In Computing, Red Hat Inc ( is a company dedicated to Free and open source software, and a major Linux distribution vendor Windows CE (also known officially as Windows Embedded Compact post version 6 Windows Mobile is a compact Operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for Mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware Specification for a Handheld -sized Computer ( Personal digital assistant A smartphone is a Mobile phone offering advanced capabilities beyond a typical mobile phone often with PC -like functionality Windows CE (also known officially as Windows Embedded Compact post version 6 The Operating System Embedded (mostly known under the Acronym OSE) is a real-time Embedded operating system created by the Swedish QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix is a commercial Unix-like Real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the Embedded systems market VxWorks is a real-time Operating system made and sold by Wind River Systems of Alameda, California, USA The ITRON project is the first of several sub-architectures of the TRON Project. OS-9 is a family of real-time, process-based, multitasking, Multi-user, Unix-like Operating systems developed in the 1980s According to some industry insiders pSOS stands for plug-in Silicon Operating System but the official stance is that it is not an abbreviation just a made-up word Nucleus RTOS is a Real-time operating system (RTOS and full-featured toolset created by the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics for various CPU
• PSP, PlayStation 3 (XrossMediaBar)
• Amazon Kindle
• SEGA Dreamcast

External links

• NetFront product page
• An article on NetFront